LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS,
Reading edition
1848 TO 1861.
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
BALMORAL.—THE OLD CASTLE.
After a Sketch by Wild.