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father that he should keep hiin in horse meat and man's meat 

 for a year and a day after the marriage as part of the dowry. 

 And yonder, on the farther shore of "lone St Mary's silver 

 lake," is Bowerhope, most pleasant of abodes. The old farmer, 

 when dying, said to his minister, " Commend me to Bowerhope. 

 I could tak' a lease o't to a' eternity," adding, after a short 

 pause, "provided I got it at a reasonable rent." And what 

 memories cluster around Tibbie Shiel's famous hostelry (Plate 

 XVIII.) — the rendezvous of Hogg, Wilson, Edward Irving, 

 and many another known to fame in the various walks of 

 life ! Well may we say, in the words of Principal Shairp, — 



" High souls have come and gone, 

 And on these braes have thrown 



The light of their glorious fancies, 

 And left their words to dwell 

 And mingle with the spell 



Of a thousand old romances. 



And we who did partake 

 By still St Mary's Lake 



Those houi's of renewed communion, 

 Shall feel when far apart 

 The remembrance at the heart 



Keeps alive our foregone soul-union. 



From this world of eye and ear 

 Soon we must disappear ; 



But our after-life may borrow 

 From these scenes a tone and hue 

 When all things are made new 



In a fairer world than Yarrow." 



