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what a fascination is conveyed in it. You are completely captured, 

 but you resign all willingly. Other and beautiful scenes seem tame. 

 Bright and gay places are not thought of. As a son of Skye 

 writes :* 



" Let them sing of the sunny South, 



Where the blue Aegean smiles, 

 But give to me the Scottish sea, 



That breaks round the Western Isles ! 

 Jerusalem, Athens, and Eome, 



I would see them before I die ! 

 But I'd rather not see any one of the three 



Than be exiled for ever from Skye." 



1 Sheriff Nicholson. 



