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'That is always the case with those that Mrs Macshake has obliged,' returned Mr Douglas: 'she does many liberal things, but in so ungracious a manner that people are never sure whether they are obliged or insulted by her. But the way in which she receives kindness is still worse. Could anything equal her impertinence about my roebuck?-Faith, I've a good mind never to enter her door again !'

Mary could scarcely preserve her gravity at her uncle's indignation, which seemed so disproportioned to the cause. But, to turn the current of his ideas, she remarked that he had certainly been at pains to select two admirable specimens of her countrywomen for her.

'I don't think I shall soon forget either Mrs Gawffaw or Mrs Macshake,' said she, laughing.

'I hope you won't carry away the impression that these two lusus naturæ are specimens of Scotchwomen?' said her uncle. 'The former, indeed, is rather a sort of weed that infests every soil; the latter, to be sure, is an indigenous plant. I question if she would have arrived at such perfection in a more cultivated field or genial clime. She was born at a time when Scotland was very different from what it is now. Female education

was little attended to, even in families of the highest rank; consequently the ladies of those days possess a raciness in their manners and ideas that we should vainly seek for in this age of cultivation and refinement.'

A Memoir is prefixed to the 1881 edition of Miss Ferrier's novels; and a Life, with Correspondence, was edited by her grand-nephew in 1899. There was an American illustrated edition of the novels in 1893-94, which was reprinted in London; and another edition is by R. Brimley Johnson (6 vols. 1894).

Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), born at Blackwood, near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire, was the son of the gardener on the estate of Blackwood, who in 1787 became factor or land-steward to Miller of Dalswinton, Burns's landlord at Ellisland; and in his father's cottage Allan in his sixth year heard Burns read Tam o'Shanter. An elder brother was a country mason and builder, and Allan was apprenticed to him in 1795; but in 1810, at the invitation of Cromek, on whom he had palmed off some of his own songs for old ones, he removed to London. Robert Hartley Cromek (1770-1812) was a speculative English engraver and picture publisher, who visited Scotland in 1808 and 1809 to collect the materials he published in his Reliques of Burns and Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern. Cunningham furnished almost the whole of what Cromek issued, without any proper account of their provenance, as Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song. The literary mason got the present of a book from Cromek and a promise of something further on, but had now to support himself and his wife mainly by writing. He produced both prose and verse; he reported for the newspapers; and in 1814, through Cromek's introduction, he became superintendent of works to Chantrey the sculptor, in whose studio he continued till the year before his own death. Some of his lyrics in Cromek's collection are warlike and Jacobite, some amatory, some are devotional, and some are on Covenanting

themes; but all of them illustrate Scottish country life and manners. As songs, they are not pitched in a key to be popular; but these pseudo-antique strains have a curious natural grace and tenderness, a certain Doric simplicity and fervour. In Chantrey's studio 'honest Allan' spent his days, serving also as secretary, while in the evenings he produced a large mass of literary work. In 1822 he published Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a dramatic poem, founded on Border story and superstition, and also two volumes of Traditional Tales. Three novels on like themes followed, even more diffuse and improbable-Paul Jones (1826), Sir Michael Scott (1828), and Lord Roldan (1836). In 1833 appeared a 'rustic epic' in twelve parts, The Maid of Elvar. He edited a collection of Scottish Songs in four volumes, and an edition of Burns in eight, with a Life (1834). To Murray's Family Library he contributed Lives of Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (6 vols. 1829-33; new ed. 1879), which proved on the whole the most important of his books. His last work-completed just two days before his death-was a Life of

Sir David Wilkie, in three volumes. 'A wet sheet and a flowing sea,' from the Traditional Tales, an admirable sea-song by an utter landsman, is not merely a remarkable tour de force, but is perhaps Allan's highest triumph in verse. His prose style was universally admired for its force and freedom: Southey said he was the best stylist next to Hume born north of the Tweed. There is a Life of him by David Hogg (1875).

The Young Maxwell.
'Where gang ye, thou silly auld carle?
And what do ye carry there?'
'I'm gaun to the hill, thou sodger man,
To shift my sheep their lair.'

Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle,
An' a gude lang stride took he;
'I trow thou be a feck auld carle,

Will ye show the way to me?'
And he has gane wi' the silly auld carle,
Adown by the greenwood side;
'Light down and gang, thou sodger man,
For here ye canna ride.'

He drew the reins o' his bonny gray steed,
An' lightly down he sprang :

Of the comeliest scarlet was his weir coat,
Whare the gowden tassels hang.

He has thrown aff his plaid, the silly auld carle,
An' his bonnet frae 'boon his bree;
An' wha was it but the young Maxwell!
An' his gude brown sword drew he!
'Thou killed my father, thou vile Southron!
An' ye killed my brethren three !
Whilk brake the heart o' my ae sister,

I loved as the light o' my ee!
'Draw out yer sword, thou vile Southron!
Red-wat wi' blude o' my kin!
That sword it crapped the bonniest flower
E'er lifted its head to the sun!

'There's ae sad stroke for my dear auld father!

There's twa for my brethren three !

An' there's ane to thy heart for my ae sister,
Wham I loved as the light o' my ee.'

Hame, Hame, Hame.

Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,

Oh, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

When the flower is i' the bud, and the leaf is on the tree,
The lark shall sing me hame in my ain countrie.
Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,
Oh, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

The green leaf o' loyalty's beginning for to fa',
The bonny white rose it is withering an' a';

But I'll water 't wi' the blude of usurping tyrannie,
An' green it will grow in my ain countrie.
Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,
Oh, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

Oh, there's naught frae ruin my country can save,
But the keys o' kind heaven to open the grave,
That a' the noble martyrs wha died for loyaltie,
May rise again and fight for their ain countrie.
Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,
Oh, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

The great are now gane, a' wha ventured to save,
The new grass is springing on the tap o' their grave,
But the sun through the mirk blinks blithe in my ee,

'I'll shine on ye yet in yer ain countrie.' Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,

Hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

Fragment.

Gane were but the winter-cauld,
And gane were but the snaw,
I could sleep in the wild woods,
Where primroses blaw.

Cauld's the snaw at my head,

And cauld at my feet,

And the finger o' death 's at my een,

Closing them to sleep.

Let nane tell my father,

Or my mither sae dear;

I'll meet them baith in heaven
At the spring o' the year.

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,

A wind that follows fast,
And fills the white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While, like the eagle free,
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.

'O for a soft and gentle wind!'
I heard a fair one cry;

But give to me the snoring breeze,
And white waves heaving high;

And white waves heaving high, my boys,
The good ship tight and free-
The world of waters is our home,
And merry men are we.

There's tempest in yon horned moon,
And lightning in yon cloud;
And hark the music, mariners-
The wind is piping loud;

The wind is piping loud, my boys,
The lightning flashing free-
While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.

My Nanie O.

Red rows the Nith 'tween bank and brae,
Mirk is the night and rainie O,

Though heaven and earth should mix in storm,
I'll gang and see my Nanie O;

My Nanie O, my Nanie O;

My kind and winsome Nanie O,
She holds my heart in love's dear bands,
And nane can do 't but Nanie O.
In preaching-time sae meek she stands,
Sae saintly and sae bonny O,

I cannot get ae glimpse of grace,
For thieving looks at Nanie O;
My Nanie O, my Nanie O;

The world's in love with Nanie O;
That heart is hardly worth the wear
That wadna love my Nanie O.
My breast can scarce contain my heart,
When dancing she moves finely O;

I guess what heaven is by her eyes,
They sparkle sae divinely O;

My Nanie O, my Nanie O;

The flower o' Nithsdale's Nanie O ;
Love looks frae 'neath her lang brown hair,
And says, 'I dwell with Nanie O.'

Tell not, thou star at gray daylight,
O'er Tinwald-top so bonny O,
My footsteps 'mang the morning dew,
When coming frae my Nanie O;
My Nanie O, my Nanie O;

Nane ken o' me and Nanie O;

The stars and moon may tell 't aboon,

They winna wrang my Nanie O!

The first four lines of the third stanza are from Allan Ramsay's Nanie O.

The Poet's Bridal-day Song.
Oh, my love 's like the steadfast sun,
Or streams that deepen as they run;
Nor hoary hairs, nor forty years,
Nor moments between sighs and tears-
Nor nights of thought nor days of pain,
Nor dreams of glory dreamed in vain—
Nor mirth, nor sweetest song which flows
To sober joys and soften woes,
Can make my heart or fancy flee
One moment, my sweet wife, from thee.
Even while I muse, I see thee sit

In maiden bloom and matron wit-
Fair, gentle as when first I sued,
Ye seem, but of sedater mood;
Yet my heart leaps as fond for thee

As when, beneath Arbigland tree,

We stayed and wooed, and thought the moon

Set on the sea an hour too soon;

Or lingered 'mid the falling dew,

When looks were fond and words were few.

Though I see smiling at thy feet

Five sons and ae fair daughter sweet;
And time, and care, and birth-time woes
Have dimmed thine eye and touched thy rose ;
To thee, and thoughts of thee, belong
All that charms me of tale or song;
When words come down like dews unsought,
With gleams of deep enthusiast thought,
And Fancy in her heaven flies free-
They come, my love, they come from thee.

Oh, when more thought we gave of old
To silver than some give to gold;
'Twas sweet to sit and ponder o'er
What things should deck our humble bower!
'Twas sweet to pull in hope with thee
The golden fruit of Fortune's tree;
And sweeter still to choose and twine
A garland for these locks of thine-
A song-wreath which may grace my Jean,
While rivers flow and woods are green.

At times there come, as come there ought,
Grave moments of sedater thought-
When Fortune frowns, nor lends our night
One gleam of her inconstant light;
And Hope, that decks the peasant's bower,
Shines like the rainbow through the shower-
Oh, then I see, while seated nigh,
A mother's heart shine in thine eye;
And proud resolve and purpose meek,
Speak of thee more than words can speak :
I think the wedded wife of mine
The best of all that's not divine.

Allan Cunningham's sons were an exceptional instance of hereditary talent in one family: (1) Joseph Davey CUNNINGHAM (18121851), captain of Engineers in the Indian ariny, wrote a History of the Sikhs (1849; 2nd ed. 1853); (2) Major-General Sir ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM (1814-93), appointed Archæological Surveyor-General of India in 1870, Companion of the Star of India in 1871, wrote The Bhilsa Topes or Buddhist Monuments of Central India (1854), Arian Architecture (1846), Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical (1854), The Ancient Geography of India (1871), &c.; (3) PETER Cunningham (1816–69), clerk in the Audit Office 1834-60, wrote a Life of Nell Gwynn (1852), Handbook of London (1849), besides editing Walpole's Letters, Drummond of Hawthornden, Goldsmith, Johnson's Lives of the Poets, &c.; (4) FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM (1820-75), lieutenant-colonel in the Indian army, edited Marlowe, Massinger, and Ben Jonson.

Thomas Mounsey Cunningham (17761834) was the senior of his brother Allan (see the preceding article), and was a copious author in prose and verse, though with an undistinguished name, long before the author of the Lives of British Painters was known. He attended Dumfries Academy, became a wheelwright near Cambridge, and was ultimately chief clerk to Rennie, the civil engineer. His first poem was The Harst Kirn (1797); he wrote also satires such as The Cambridgeshire Garland and The Unco Grave.

David Vedder, a native of Burness, Orkney (1790-1854), obtained some reputation by a volume of Orcadian Sketches, published in 1842; and his Scottish songs and Norse ballads were popular in the north. Dr Chalmers was fond of quoting to his students a piece on 'The Temple of Nature.'

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784-1848) wrote two novels of Scottish life and history, Lochandhu (1825; new ed. 1891) and The Wolfe of Badenoch (1827), of which the latter, with the turbulent son of Robert II. for its hero, is still popular, and often reprinted. In 1830 he wrote a vivid Account of the Great Floods in Morayshire in 1829. The son of a Haddingtonshire baronet, he had in 1808 married the heiress of Relugas in Moray, and was then living in the neighbourhood. In the story of the flood he showed, according to Dr John Brown, 'his descriptive power, his humour, his sympathy for suffering, his sense of the picturesque.' Sir Thomas also published a series of Highland Rambles, with a sequel, Legendary Tales of the Highlands. He wrote on natural history, and edited Gilpin's Forest Scenery and Sir Uvedale Price's Essays on the Picturesque; and he was commissioned to write a memorial of Queen Victoria's visit to Scotland in 1842. One of his best works was a descriptive account of Scottish Rivers for Tait's Magazine, left incomplete at his death and edited by Dr John Brown in 1874.

William Thom, the 'Inverurie Poet' (17991848), wrote some sweet and pathetic verses. He worked as a handloom-weaver at Aberdeen and Inverurie, and traversed the country as a pedlar, accompanied by his wife and children. This unsettled life induced careless and dissipated habits. His first poem that attracted notice, The Blind Boy's Pranks, appeared in the Aberdeen Herald. In 1844 he published a volume of Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom Weaver. He visited London, and was warmly received; but returning to Scotland, he died at Dundee in great penury. The Mitherless Bairn.

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Aneath his cauld brow siccan dreams hover there, such
O' hands that wont kindly to kame his dark hair;
But morning brings clutches, a' reckless and stern,
That lo'e nae the locks o' the mitherless bairn.
Yon sister, that sang o'er his saftly rocked bed,
Now rests in the mools where her mammy is laid;
The father toils sair their wee bannock to earn,
An' kens na the wrangs o' his mitherless bairn.
Her spirit, that passed in yon hour o❜ his birth,
Still watches his wearisome wanderings on earth;
Recording in heaven the blessings they earn
Wha couthilie deal wi' the mitherless bairn.

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Oh! speak na him harshly-he trembles the while,
He bends to your bidding, an' blesses your smile;
In their dark hour o' anguish, the heartless shall learn
That God deals the blow for the mitherless bairn!

William Nicholson, the 'Galloway Poet' (1782-1849), was the son of a carrier, and was born near Borgue in Kirkcudbright. He became a pedlar in boyhood, but not before he was master of all the available chapbooks, ballads, and lore of the country-side. He also composed and recited songs, published a volume of verse-tales and poems in 1814 (2nd ed. in 1828; 3rd ed. 1878, with Memoir), and was ultimately a professional piper at fairs and weddings, and occasionally a cattledrover. Unluckily tippling kept him unsettled and unprosperous, even after he became an advocate of universal redemption. Some of his songs are tuneful and tender: his Brownie of Blednoch, in celebration of a kindly local sprite, is his most successful piece, and is known to readers of Dr John Brown's Hora Subseciva.

The Brownie of Blednoch.

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His face did glow like the glow o' the west,
When the drumly cloud has it half o'ercast;
Or the struggling moon when she's sair distrest.
O sirs, 'twas Aiken-drum.

I trow the bauldest stood aback,

Wi' a gape an' a glower till their lugs did crack, As the shapeless phantom mum'ling spak— 'Hae ye wark for Aiken-drum?'

O, had ye seen the bairns's fright

As they stared at this wild and unyirthly wight;
As they skulkit in 'tween the dark and the light,
And graned out, Aiken-drum!'. . .
The black dog growling cowered his tail,
The lassie swarfed, loot fa' the pail ;
Rob's lingle brak as he mendit the flail,
At the sight o' Aiken-drum.

His matted head on his breast did rest,

A lang blue beard wan'ered down like a vest; But the glare o' his ee hath nae bard exprest, Nor the skimes o' Aiken-drum.

To look at Aiken-drum.

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Roun' his hairy form there was naething seen But a philabeg o' the rashes green,

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'I lived in a lan' where we saw nae sky,
I dwalt in a spot where a burn rins na by;
But I 'se dwall now wi' you if ye like to try-
Hae ye wark for Aiken-drum?

'I'll shiel a' your sheep i' the mornin' sune,
I'll berry your crap by the light o' the moon,
An' ba the bairns wi' an unkenned tune,

If ye 'll keep puir Aiken-drum.
'I'll loup the linn when ye canna wade,
I'll kirn the kirn, an' I'll turn the bread;
An' the wildest filly that ever ran rede,

I'se tame 't,' quoth Aiken-drum.

'To wear the tod frae the flock on the fell,
To gather the dew frae the heather-bell,
An' to look at my face in your clear crystal well,
Might gie pleasure to Aiken-drum.

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'I'se seek nae guids, gear, bond, nor mark ;
I use nae beddin', shoon, nor sark;
But a cogfu' o' brose 'tween the light an' the dark, stirabout
Is the wage o' Aiken-drum.'

wealth

Quoth the wylie auld wife: 'The thing speaks weel;
Our workers are scant-we hae routh o' meal;
Gif he'll do as he says-be he man, be he deil—
Wow! we'll try this Aiken-drum.'

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But the wenches skirled: 'He's no be here!
His eldritch look gars us swarf wi' fear;
An' the fient a ane will the house come near,
If they think but o' Aiken-drum.'
'Puir clipmalabors! ye hae little wit;
Is'tna Hallowmas now, an' the crap out yet?'
Sae she silenced them a' wi' a stamp o' her fit—
'Sit yer wa's down, Aiken-drum.'

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By the streamer's gleam or the glance o' the moon
A word, or a wish, an' the brownie cam sune,
Sae helpfu' was Aiken-drum. . .
On Blednoch banks, an' on crystal Cree,
For mony a day a toiled wight was he;
While the bairns played harmless roun' his knee,
Sae social was Aiken-drum.

But a new-made wife, fu' o' rippish freaks,
Fond o' a' things feat for the first five weeks,
Laid a mouldy pair o' her ain man's breeks
By the brose o' Aiken-drum.

Let the learned decide when they convene,
What spell was him an' the breeks between ;
For frae that day forth he was nae mair seen,
An' sair missed was Aiken-drum.
He was heard by a herd gaun by the Thrieve,
Crying, 'Lang, lang now may I greet an' grieve;
For, alas! I hae gotten baith fee an' leave-
Oh, luckless Aiken-drum!'

Awa', ye wrangling sceptic tribe,

Wi' your pros an' your cons wad ye decide
'Gain the 'sponsible voice o' a hail country-side,
On the facts 'bout Aiken-drum!

Though the Brownie o' Blednoch' lang be gane,
The mark o' his feet 's left on mony a stane;
An' mony a wife an' mony a wean

Tell the feats o' Aiken-drum.

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E'en now, light loons that gibe an' sneer
At spiritual guests an' a' sic gear,
At the Glashnoch mill hae swat wi' fear,
An' looked roun' for Aiken-drum.

An' guidly folks hae gotten a fright,

When the moon was set an' the stars gied nae light, At the roaring linn, in the howe o' the night,

Wi' sughs like Aiken-drum.

William Laidlaw (1780-1845) was son of the Ettrick Shepherd's master at Blackhouse, and is well known to all who have read Lockhart's

Life of Scott. He was Scott's companion in some of his early wanderings, his friend and land-steward in advanced years, his amanuensis in the composition of some of his novels, and he was one of the few who watched over his last sad moments. After Scott's death Laidlaw became factor on an estate in Ross-shire, where he died. One song of his is exceptionally well known: Lucy's Flittin'.

'Twas when the wan leaf frae the birk-tree was fa'in,
And Martinmas dowie had wound up the year,
That Lucy rowed up her wee kist wi' her a' in 't,
And left her auld maister and neebours sae dear:
For Lucy had served i' the Glen a' the simmer;

She cam there afore the bloom cam on the pea;
An orphan was she, and they had been gude till her;
Sure that was the thing brocht the tear to her ee.
She gaed by the stable where Jamie was stannin';
Richt sair was his kind heart her flittin' to see;
'Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!' quo' Jamie, and ran in ;
The gatherin' tears trickled fast frae his ee.

As down the burn-side she gaed slow wi' her flittin',
'Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!' was ilka bird's sang;

She heard the craw sayin 't, high on the tree sittin',
And Robin was chirpin 't the brown leaves amang.
'Oh, what is 't that pits my puir heart in a flutter?
And what gars the tears come sae fast to my ee?
If I wasna ettled to be ony better,

Then what gars me wish ony better to be?
I'm just like a lammie that loses its mither;
Nae mither or friend the puir lammie can see ;

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I fear I hae tint my puir heart a' thegither,
Nae wonder the tear fa's sae fast frae my ee.
'Wi' the rest o' my claes I hae rowed up the ribbon,
The bonny blue ribbon that Jamie gae me;
Yestreen, when he gae me 't, and saw I was sabbin',
I'll never forget the wae blink o' his ee.
Though now he said naething but " Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!”
It made me I neither could speak, hear, nor see:
He couldna say mair but just "Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!"
Yet that I will mind till the day that I dee.
'The lamb likes the gowan wi' dew when it's droukit;
The hare likes the brake and the braird on the lea;
But Lucy likes Jamie ;'-she turned and she lookit,

She thocht the dear place she wad never mair see.
[Ah, weel may young Jamie gang dowie and cheerless!
And weel may he greet on the bank o' the burn!
For bonny sweet Lucy, sae gentle and peerless,

Lies cauld in her grave, and will never return!] The last four lines were, somewhat superfluously, added by Hogg to 'complete the story.'

William Tennant (1785-1848) published in 1812 a singular mock-heroic poem, Anster Fairwritten in an ottava rima almost the same as that used in 1817 by Hookham Frere, and afterwards made so popular by Byron in his Beppo and Don Juan. The subject was the marriage of Maggie Lauder, a rude, rustic heroine of Scottish song; but the author exalted Maggie to higher dignity, and wrote rather for the admirers of that conventional poetry, half serious and sentimental, half ludicrous and satirical, which was cultivated by Pulci, Berni, and many other Italians. Classic imagery was lavished on familiar subjects; supernatural machinery was (as in the Rape of the Lock) blended with the ordinary details of domestic life, and with lively and fanciful description. Exuberance of animal spirits lifted the author over perilous obstacles, and his wit and fancy were rarely at fault. Such a sprightly volume, in a style then unhackneyed, was sure of success; Anster Fair sold rapidly, and has since been often republished. The author, William Tennant, a native of Anstruther, or Anster, in Fife, was a cripple from birth, and, whilst clerk to a corn-dealer, studied Eastern and Western tongues and ancient and modern literature. His attainments were rewarded in 1813 with an appointment as parish schoolmaster at Lasswade, at a salary of £40 per annum-a reward not unlike that conferred on Mr Abraham Adams in Joseph Andrews, who, being a scholar and man of virtue, was 'provided with a handsome income of £23 a year, which, however, he could not make a great figure with, because he lived in a dear country, and was a little encumbered with a wife and six children.' Tennant was afterwards (1835) appointed teacher of classics in an academy at Dollar, and finally (1835) professor of Oriental languages in St Mary's College, St Andrews. But the Orientalist produced still a couple of tragedies on the story of Cardinal Beaton (1823) and on John Baliol (1825); and two poems, The Thane of Fife and Papistry Stormed; or Dinging Down of the Cathedral. It was said of Sir David Wilkie that he took most of the figures in his pictures from living persons in his native county of Fife; it is obvious that Tennant's poems are in like manner grounded on Fife men and things, racy of the soil, and indeed their eminently local colour has probably told against their wider popularity. Anster Fair, the most diversified and richly humorous of them all, is the author's only real success, and is a distinctly animated, witty, and entertaining poem.

Summer Morning.

I wish I had a cottage snug and neat
Upon the top of many-fountained Ide,
That I might thence, in holy fervour, greet

The bright-gowned Morning tripping up her side: And when the low Sun's glory-buskined feet

Walk on the blue wave of the Ægean tide, Oh, I would kneel me down, and worship there The God who garnished out a world so bright and fair!

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