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 Ye hazelly shaws and briery dens, Ye burnies, wimplin' down your glens Wi' toddlin' din, Or foaming, strang, wi' hasty stens, Frae linn to linn.

The same appeal forms the burden of his song on the 'Banks and braes o' bonnie Doon.' He leads us where

In gowany glens the burnie strays, Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi' hawthorns gray.

He pictures the stream after a rain-storm, when

Tumbling brown, the burn comes down, And roars frae bank to brae ;

or when the breath of the Atlantic has swept over the wintry hills and the

Burns wi' snawy wreeths up-choked Wild-eddying swirl, Or through the mining outlet bocked Down-headlong hurl.

But nowhere does his delight in these features of his native landscape find more exuberant expression than in his 'Halloween,' when he interrupts his narrative of Leezie's misadventure to give a graphic picture of one of his brooks in the calm moonlight of an autumn evening.

Whyles owre a linn the bumie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't;         Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't;