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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 1, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain child, 'mid pentland's solitudes
Last Line: To tell of drummond's poesy's spring flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape


A MOUNTAIN child, 'mid Pentland's solitudes,
Thou risest, murmuring Esk, and lapsing on,
Between rude banks, o'er rock and mossy stone,
Glitterest remote, where seldom step intrudes;
Nor unrenowned, as, with an ampler tide,
Thou windest through the glens of Woodhouselee,
Where 'mid the song of bird, the hum of bee,
With soft Arcadian pictures clothed thy side
The pastoral Ramsay. Lofty woods embower
Thy rocky bed 'mid Roslin's crannies deep,
While proud on high time-hallowed ruins peep
Of castle and chapelle; yea, to this hour
Grey Hawthornden smiles downward from its steep,
To tell of Drummond's poesy's spring flower.





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