...levity in a quatrain, which he inscribed on the margin, where it is still clearly to be traced : ' It win perhaps be learned with some surprise that a remnant of those Cameronians who felt unsatisfied...

...they quietly submitted. The vessel was condemned, and, with all her arms and stores, sold at Dumfries. poet in Dumfries. Under the head "Balmaghie," a notice...was theirs: If thou'rt a slave indulge thy sneer." Had the malter ended here, the poet's services might have secured his promotion; but unfortunately...

...they quietly submitted. The vessel was condemned, and, with all her arms and stores, sold at Dumfries. poet in Dumfries. Under the head "Balmaghie," a notice...was theirs: If thou'rt a slave indulge thy sneer." Had the matter ended here, the poet's services might have secured his promotion; but unfortunately...

...And spare his golden bindings. THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT.1 THE Solemn League and Covenant N&w brings a smile, now brings a tear ; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs; If thou 'rt a slave, indulge- thy sneer. LINES WRITTEN AT LOUDON MANSE. THE night was still, and o'er...

...hand, are distinctly visible : it Is now the property of the Mechanics' Institution, there.] THE soleum League and Covenant Now brings a smile — now brings...theirs, — If thou'rt a slave, indulge thy sneer.* * Allan Cunningham, in his edition of Burns, gives another version of this quatrain, together with...

...well-knownhand, are distinctly visible: it is now the property of the Mechanics' Institution, there.] THE solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile...tear ; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs, — If thoa'rt a slave, indulge thy sneer.* * Allan Cunningham, in his edition of Burns, gives another version...

...some emphasis by Burns in answer to a scoffing remark made in his hearing against the Covenanters.] THE Solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile,...a tear ; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs ; If tbou Vt a slave, indulge thy sneer. WRITTEN ON A PANE OF GLASS IN THB INN AT MOITAT, ON BURNS BEING...

...the following verse appears on the margin of the page, pencilled in his striking handwriting :— " The Solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile,...was theirs— If thou'rt a slave indulge thy sneer." Dumfries and its neighbourhood possess many attractions to the rambler and tourist besides memorials...

...But, oh ! respect his lordship's taste, And spare his golden bindings. THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT. THE Solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile,...was theirs ; If thou'rt a slave, indulge thy sneer. LINES WRITTEN AT LOUDON MANSE. THE night was still, and o'er the hill The moon shone on the castle...

...poetry ! ' " Burns was nettled at this unfeelmg comment, and wrote with his pencil on the page :— THE Solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile,...was theirs ; If thou'rt a slave, indulge thy sneer. • SONGS. MY HANDSOME NELL,. Tune—" I am a man unmarried." THE heroine of this song, Nelly Kilpatrick,...