...rivulets of Kyle flow bright in future song, he lets us into the secret of his own mode of musing : — " The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wander Adown some trotting burn's meander, An' no think lang ! O ! sweet to stray, an' pensive ponder A heartfelt sang...

...Hence it has been said, by him who like the early bards of Greece was one of Nature's own poets, that The Muse nae poet ever fand her Till by himsel he learned to wander Adoun some trotting burn's meander And think na lang. We are therefore inclined to regard as correct...

...was his study; he, it seems, like Jacques, was never at a loss to find " books in trees." " The JIuse nae poet ever fand her Till by himsel' he learned to wander Adown some trotting bum's meander, An' no think lang." As Hums says; and one of his burns, by the by, is Huntley...

...sublime apostrophe to the great rivers of the earth by Armstrong, and the simple ejaculation of Burns. The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wander Adown some trotting burn's meander. M. Soumet, a modern French author, bears arms perfectly in unison with the...

...he, it seems, like Jaques, is петег at a b» l -• find " books in trees." " The Muse пае poet ever fand her Till by himsel he learned to wander Adown some trotting burn's meander, An' no think lang," As Burns says ; and one of his burns, by tbe by, is Huntley...

...so fabled. And one who was not a Greek, but a manly northern self-dependent genius, has said— i " The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wander Adown some trotting burn's meander, And n»' think lang." Which is condensing a whole book into four short ""ties....

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...(chosen, if I recolleet right, by Mr. Coleridge, as a motoo I for his embryo " Brook,") ' The Muse пaе Poet ever fand her. Till by himsel' he learned to wander, Adown some trotting burn'8 meander, AND NA' THINR LAÑO.' Page 288. • There ЫooтеЛ Ou strawberry of the...

...(chosen, if I recollect right, by Mr. Coleridge, ал а motto for his embryo " Brook,") ' The Muse пае Poet ever fand her. Till by himsel' he learned to wander, Adown pome trotting burn's meander, AND NA' THINK LANG.' Page 286. * There Mo->im'if the efmir'^rn/ of thf...

...ejaculation of Burus, (chosen, if 1 recollect right, by Mr. Coleridge, as a motto for his embryo " Brook,") ' The Muse nae Poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wandor, Adown some trotting burn's meander,, AND NA' THINK LANS.' NOTES TO THE RIVER DUDDON. Sonnet...