THE BROOM-BUSH 133 



He row'd him in a Highland plaid, 



It cover'd him but sparely, 

 And slept beneath a bush o' broom 



Oh ! wae's me for Prince Charlie ! 



The author was William Glen (1789-1826). 



36. The landscape glow of Thomson. See Burns's Vision 

 (Duan Second) 



Thou canst not learn, nor can I show, 

 To paint with Thomson's landscape glow. 



42. Tannahill. Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), author of 

 some sweet lyrics only less popular than the songs of Burns : 

 from one of these (Bonnie Wood 0' Craigie-lea) the following 

 lines are taken 



The broom, the brier, the birken bush, 

 Bloom bonnie o'er thy flowery lea ; 



And a' the sweets that ane can wish 

 Frae Nature's hand are strew'd on thee. 



45. the lone glen of green bracken, 8$c. From a song be- 

 ginning 



Their groves o' sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon. 

 52. a ladder for FitzJames. See The Lady of the Lake, Canto I 



The broom's tough roots his ladder made, 

 The hazel saplings lent their aid; 

 And thus an airy point he won 

 Where, gleaming with the setting sun, 

 One burnished sheet of living gold, 

 Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled. 



64. had not Burns shown him the way. Here is his own con- 

 fession, at the grave of Burns, in 1803 : 



I mourned with thousands 



he is alluding to the death of the Scottish poet, which had 

 happened seven years previously 



