20 AN ANGLER'S RAMBLES 



LXVIII. 



To the delights that make thee dear, 

 These add their salutary cheer, 



Thou warbler among rivers ! 

 Companion of the mind, sweet Esk ! 

 Whose course is as the arabesque 



Of light brok'n into shivers. 



LXIX. 

 The angler Where Dee leaves stealthily his den 



bendeth his . 



steps to * 1 Of mists to ravish laughing Ken 



And on her bosom revel ; 

 Appropriating haugh and brae, 

 All through the breadth of Galloway, 



Flower'd glade and rushy level. 



LXX. 



Below Threave's tragic walls, whose lord 

 Cross'd with his sovereign speech and sword 



In insolent ambition, 

 Where Mollance Meg, with visage swart, 

 To Douglas of the bloody heart 



Tender'd her fiery mission. 



LXXI. 

 He is moved On lakes whose depths no glancing oar 



by the recol- 



lection of his Disturbs or scares the beaded store 



successes, 



Which, in the dawns of summer, 

 And at the dusks, with widening ring, 

 O'er the lull'd ranges pasturing, 



Rewake the expiring tremor. 



