. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. gorgeous in peace, held their court here. From the rocksand caves have issued the bold deliverers of their native land, whenthey sought the heather bush for their shelter ; and from the grovesof Hawthomden has arisen the poets enraptured song. These timesare gone: but the same ravines, rocks, and caves contain the gleamsof native grandeur; a wilderness of heather still luxuriates over thehoary precipices and uplifted cliffs. The woods which once coveredthe patriots of Scotland still afford one of the most delicious retreats inthe noonday
. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. gorgeous in peace, held their court here. From the rocksand caves have issued the bold deliverers of their native land, whenthey sought the heather bush for their shelter ; and from the grovesof Hawthomden has arisen the poets enraptured song. These timesare gone: but the same ravines, rocks, and caves contain the gleamsof native grandeur; a wilderness of heather still luxuriates over thehoary precipices and uplifted cliffs. The woods which once coveredthe patriots of Scotland still afford one of the most delicious retreats inthe noonday rays of a summer sun, presenting a sublime sylvan seclusion,such dark and shadowy recesses, such moss-grown slopes where Springthrows out her primroses, and Summer her delicately tinted flowers,while the devious Esk, at one place exhibiting the appearance of a darkbrooding stream and anon a roaring torrent, filling with sound thefairy solitude— That formd by hand of nature seemsFor lovers sighs and poets dreams ! €l)c (TiiDtlr of ( •THERE WATCHING HIGH THE LEAST ALARMS, THY RODOH, RODE FORTRESS GLEAMS AFAR ; LIKE SOME BOLD VETERAN GREY IN ARMS, AJJD MARKD WITH MANY A SEAMY SCAR. BDRNS. THE STEEP AND IRON-BELTED ROCKWHERE TRUSTED LIE THE MONARCHYS LAST OEMS. ALBANIA. A rOEM. .J0^ Il
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