...hlest world where parting is unknown. 1835. EXTEMPOER EFFUSION UPON THE serve 356 Along a hare aad open valley, The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide. When last along its hanks I wandered. Through groves that had hegun to shed Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My steps...

...in the forest of Ettrick, in Selkirkshire, and in early life followed the occupation of a shepherd. "When first, descending from the moorlands, I saw...of Yarrow glide Along a bare and open valley, The Ettricl: Shepherd was my guide. Wordsworth. Eu'cli-o. A character in Plautus's comedy of "Aulularia,"...

...fallen a light That tempts us to adore.1 [1834. EXTEMPORE EFFCSIOX UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG. WHEH first, descending from the moorlands , I saw the Stream...Shepherd was my guide.' When last along its banks I wander'd, Thro' groves that had begun to shed Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My steps the Border-minstrel...

...was less successful, probably on account of its local interest. The description of the high-road !) "When first, descending from the Moorlands, / I saw...bare and open valley, /The Ettrick Shepherd was my gnide": V p. 145 EE (omitted in T). 2) See above p. 14. *) Southey's Correspondence IV p. 97. Mem....

...number were the subjoined extemporaneous lines from the pen of William Wordsworth : — " When flnt descending from the moorlands, I saw the stream of...The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide. " When last along it« banks I wander'd. Through groves that had begun to ahed Tlieir golden leave* upon the pathway,...

...Ettrick Shepherd was my guide. " When last along its banks I wandered, Through groves that had began to shed Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My...steps the Border Minstrel led. " The mighty minstrel breathea no longer, 'Mid mouldering ruins luw he lies : And death upon the braes of Yarrow Has closed...

...Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG. NOVEMBER, 1835. WHEN first, descending from the moorlands, I saw the...Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My steps the Border-minstrel led. The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer, Mid mouldering ruins low he lies ; And...

...the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG. NOVEMBER, 1835. WHEN first, descending from the moorlands, I saw the...Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My steps the Border-minstrel led. The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer, Mid mouldering ruins low he lies ; And...

...The memory of what has been And never more will be. (Wordsworth.) ON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG. J|HEN first, descending from the moorlands, I saw the stream...Their golden leaves upon the pathways, My steps the Border-minstrel led. The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer, 'Mid mouldering ruins low he lies ; And...

...that Wordsworth beheld in his visit in 1814, and respecting which, twenty-one years later, he says, " When first descending from the moorlands, I saw the...bare and open valley, The Ettrick Shepherd was my guida." T stones, and one conspicuous monumental enclosure, within which lie the remains of John Grieve,...