• At Inversnaid, upon Loch Lomond
    SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower
    Of beauty is thy earthly dower!
    Twice seven consenting years have shed
    Their utmost bounty on thy head;
    And these gray rocks, this household lawn,
    These trees,—a veil just half withdrawn,—
    This fall of water that doth make
    A murmur near the silent lake,
    This...

  • Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
      The castle o’ Montgomery,
    Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
      Your waters never drumlie!
    There Simmer first unfald her robes
      And there she langest tarry!
    For there I took the last fareweel
      O’ my sweet Highland Mary.

    How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk!
      How rich...