• On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom

    NO more these simple flowers belong
      To Scottish maid and lover;
    Sown in the common soil of song,
      They bloom the wide world over.

    In smiles and tears, in sun and showers,
      The minstrel and the heather,
    The deathless singer and the flowers
      He sang of live together.

    Wild...