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all, for althoug-h he was found in, and broke from, a large wood, he suf- 

 fered himself to be coursed in view by the pack, and died after a short 

 run of somewhere about three miles. There was, in fact, but one 

 redeeming clause in the operations of this day, which was the peculiarity 

 of the spot on which the who-whoop took place — in a deeply sequestered 

 and finely timbered glen, through which the Tweed meanders with more 

 than its usual habits, also nearly opposite to the famous Abbey of Dry- 

 burgh, and from whence the venerable beauty of its ruin is exhibited to 

 great advantage. To Scotchmen, this abbey is rendered interesting 

 from sundry historical recollections ; to all men by the fact that the 

 remains of a man who — 



" velut inter igaes luna minores " — 



delighted the world by his literary talents, and astounded it by his 

 literary labours, are interred within its walls. It is hardly necessary 

 to add to whom I allude — to the immortal author of Marmion ; and 

 when listening to the baying of the hounds previously to their breaking 

 up their fox, which resounded magnificently through the glades and 

 windings of this deep ravine, I doubted not but that within its sepulchral 

 walls — where echo, it is said, delights to dwell — it might also have been 

 repeated to the listening ear. Knowing then, as I did know, that this 

 departed poet was a sportsman and had so often made such scenes as this 

 his theme, I could not but lament that that ear was deaf to the soul- 

 enchanting sound. But I believe I am wrong here. The sepulchre of 

 the poet is no longer the residence of Echo. It has been elegantly said, 

 that, on the death of Bion, the disconsolate nymph roved among the 

 rocks, listening, as it were, to catch the last murmuring of his notes ; 

 'but listening in vain she became melancholy and mute. 



