. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. nows or spotted par with twinkling fin, Swimming in mazy rings the pool within, A thrill of gladness through our bosoms sent Seen in the power of early wonderment. Joanna Baillie When Joanna was six her father was appointed to the charge ofthe kirk at Hamilton. Her early growth went on, not in books, butin the fearlessness with which she ran upon the top of walls andparapets of bridges and in all daring. <(Look at Miss Jack, said afarmer, as she dashed by: <(she sits her horse as if it were a bit ofherself. At eleven she could
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. nows or spotted par with twinkling fin, Swimming in mazy rings the pool within, A thrill of gladness through our bosoms sent Seen in the power of early wonderment. Joanna Baillie When Joanna was six her father was appointed to the charge ofthe kirk at Hamilton. Her early growth went on, not in books, butin the fearlessness with which she ran upon the top of walls andparapets of bridges and in all daring. <(Look at Miss Jack, said afarmer, as she dashed by: <(she sits her horse as if it were a bit ofherself. At eleven she could not read well. aTwas thou, she saidin lines to her sister — aTwas thou who woodst me first to lookUpon the page of printed book,That thing by me abhorred, and with addressDidst win me from my thoughtless idleness,When all too old become with bootless hasteIn fitful sports the precious time to waste., Thy love of tale and story was the stroke At which my dormant fancy first awoke,And ghosts and witches in my busy brainArose in sombre show, a motley IZij4 JOANNA BAILLIE In 1776 Dr. James Baillie was made Professor of Divinity at Glas-gow University. During the two years the family lived in the col-lege atmosphere, Joanna first read Comus, and, led by the delightit awakened, the great epic of Milton. It was here that her vigorand disputatious turn of mind cast an awe over her her fathers death she settled, in 1784, with her mother andbrother and sister in London. She had made herself familiar with English literature, and aboveall she had studied Shakespeare with enthusiasm. Circumscribednow by the brick and mortar of London streets, in exchange for thefair views and liberties of her native fruitlands, Joanna found herfirst expression in a volume of Fugitive Verses, published in book caused so little comment that the words of but one friendlyhand are preserved: that the poems were truly unsophisticated rep-resentations of nature. Joannas walk wa
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