A wildering forest feather'd o'er

His ruined sides and summit hoar:
While on the north, through middle air,
Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare."

This is the most popular of Scott's poems. It is interesting in story and plot, chivalric in type, and richly picturesque. Its publication carried Scott's fame as a

poet to its most brilliant height. The following stanza is from the boat song:

"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances !
Honored and blessed be the ever-green pine!
Long may the tree, in his banner that glances,
Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line!

CYTILOBMIY

TO VINU

Heaven send it happy dew,
Earth lend it sap anew,

Gaily to bourgeon and broadly to grow;
While every highland glen

Sends our shout back agen,

'Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!""

The ruins of Roslin Castle, the baronial residence of the ancient family of St. Clair, located near a romantic and woody dell, are referred to in the "Gray Brother "

"Who knows not Melville's beechy grove

And Roslin's rocky glen,

Dalkeith, which all the virtues love,

And classic Hawthornden."

THORNE.

ABBOTSFORD: SCOTT'S HOME.

"I understand his romances the better for having seen his house, and his house the better for having read his romances." — NATHANIEL HAW

ABBOTSFORD is located about three miles west of Melrose, in the county of Roxburgh, Scotland. Before the estate became, in 1811, the property of Sir Walter Scott,

the site of the house and grounds formed a small farm known by the name of Clarty Hole. The new name was the invention of the poet, who loved thus to connect himself with the days when Melrose abbots passed over the fords of the River Tweed.