Clackmannan and Kinross . Sir William Bruce The floor of the schoolroom was the bare earth, which inrainy weather degenerated into a quagmire of wet mud ;and though the parents of his scholars did their best bylaying a row of stones from the door to the masters desk, ROLL OF IIOXOUR 137 Michaels health completely broke clown ami he returnedhome to Kinnesswood to die of consumption at the ageof 2 1. Bruce was a poet. His longest poem is Lochleven^the following extract from which, though in the conven-tional eighteenth-century style, is vi\ idly dcscripti\e of theactual scene :. Michael Braces C
Clackmannan and Kinross . Sir William Bruce The floor of the schoolroom was the bare earth, which inrainy weather degenerated into a quagmire of wet mud ;and though the parents of his scholars did their best bylaying a row of stones from the door to the masters desk, ROLL OF IIOXOUR 137 Michaels health completely broke clown ami he returnedhome to Kinnesswood to die of consumption at the ageof 2 1. Bruce was a poet. His longest poem is Lochleven^the following extract from which, though in the conven-tional eighteenth-century style, is vi\ idly dcscripti\e of theactual scene :. Michael Braces Cottage at Kinnesswood Between two mountains, uliose oerwhelniing tops, In their swift course, arrest the bellyinn; clouds, A pleasant valley lies. Upon the fourth, A narrow opning parts the craggy hills. Through which the lake, tliat beautifies the vale, Pours out its ample waters. Spreading on. And widning by degrees, it stretches north To the liigh Ochil, from whose snowy top The streams that feed the lake flow thundring down. 9—5 138 KINROSS-SHIRE Better known are Bruces paraphrases from scripture,and his short lyrics. A collection of his works waspublished in 1770 by Rew John Logan, a former fellow-student, who, however, reserved several poems to issuelater in a volume of his own. This makes it doubtful ifthe Ode to the Cuckoo^ a really fine poem, is Bruces ornot. A much earlier writer is Andrew of Wyntoun, bornabout 1350. A Canon Regular of St Andrews, he wasmade Prior of the Monastery on St Serfs Inch. Therehe compiled his Or\gale Cron\kiI—original in the s
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