ON THE COAST OF ARRAN 101 



CHAPTEK XI 



Not more serenely 'neath the southern pine 

 White glistening beaches meet blue ocean's kiss : 

 No soft Italian strand more fair than this, 



Not Shelley's Spezzia, nor the shore divine 



Where Virgil sleeps in cypress-darkened shrine. 

 Here nought should fall unseemly or amiss ; 

 Lulled by these woods and waters, life were bliss, 



Though touch' d with shade from yon dark mountain-line. 



And oh, dear burn ! most exquisite of brooks 1 

 The rowan loves thee, and the birch-clad braes 



Cast beryl shadows on thy crystal flow. 

 None of the famous streams that poets praise 

 Have lovelier pools, that charm the gazer's looks 

 As though a fabled Naiad slept below. 



CUTHBEET E. TYREB, Sannox Shore. 



COERIE : Tuesday, August 19. 



ALTHOUGH, for a lodging, we prefer the snug 

 cheerfulness of Corrie, it is to Sannox, a mile 

 and a half away, that we go most frequently for 



