22 The Chase 



with any address and spirit, as many people that 

 were present observed ; and this remark the event 

 has proved to be a true one. For as a person was 

 lately pursuing a pheasant that was wing-broken 

 in Hartley Wood, he stumbled upon the stag by 

 accident, and ran in upon him as he lay concealed 

 amidst a thick brake of brambles and bushes. 



The Rev. Gilbert IVhite (1720-1793). 



My Heart's in the Highlands <^> <:> 



MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not 

 here ; 

 My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; 

 A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, 

 My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. 

 Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, 

 The birthplace of Valour, the country of Worth, 

 Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, 

 The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. 



Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow ; 

 Farewell to the straths and green valleys below : 

 Farewell to the forests and wild hanging woods ; 

 Farewell to the torrents and loud pouring floods. 

 My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here. 

 My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer : 

 Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe ; 

 My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. 



Robert Burns, 



Merry England *^> "O ^c?^ 



THE beams of the morning sun shining on the 

 glades, or through the idle branches of the 

 tangled forest, the leisure, the freedom, " the pleasure 

 of going and coming without knowing where," the 

 troops of wild deer, the sports of the chase, and 



