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X. 



Of the rivers' joys discoursing 

 When the skies are overcast, 

 Making thankful for the past, 



And a purer life enforcing ; 



XL 



Whispering with bated breath 

 Of a valley and a stream, 

 Leading to a land of dream 



The river and the vale of death. 



XII. 



Symbol be it to fulfil 



The sweet promises of God, 

 Symbol of the Staff and Rod 



Guiding by the waters still ! 



THE SHEPHERD S DOG. 



June 1830. It was about this time, I am inclined to think, 

 I met under the bard's roof at Altrive, with a then famous, but 

 erratic animal painter, Howe by name, the object of whose visit 

 to Yarrow was to take a sketch of the celebrated colley-dogs, 

 whose sagacious feats stand emblazoned in ' The Shepherd's 

 Calendar,' a series of articles contributed by Mr. Hogg to Black- 

 wood's Magazine. The canine originals were then defunct, but 

 their direct descendants and after-types were in possession of a 

 neighbour, the tenant of Eildonhope, from whom they were bor- 

 rowed for the occasion. Of these two dogs, a sketch in oils, 



