NOTES ON SOME EARLSTOUN LOCALITIES 259 



" Bring me some mould from Leader's banks, 



I'll plant those living cowes, 

 And rear in some wild of America 



The broom of the Cowdenknowes ; 

 the broom, the bonny, bonny broom 



O' the Cowdenknowes so fair, 

 Fareweel to thee, and Leader's streams, 



I'll never see thee mair. 



Adieu, my native vale, adieu. 



Old Rhymer's tower and tree ; 

 But, wae's my heart, the Eildon hills 



My dim eyes cannot see. 

 Alace ! my head is hoary now. 



And age my back it bows, 

 Why force me from my father's grave. 



And the broom o' the Cowdenknowes. 



O ! I could lay me down to die, 



Were my last hour so near, 

 Rather than thus be torn away 



From all I hold so dear. 

 ! the broom, the bonny, bonny broom 



0' the Cowdenknowes so fair, 

 Fareweel — a deep heart wrung fareweel — 



I'll never see thee mair." 



In the address to which reference has already been made 

 in the beginning of this paper, there is given an Earlstoun 

 tradition of the mysterious disappearance of Thomas the 

 Ehymer, the writer of it concluding with the remark, "It 

 is believed that it (viz. the tradition) has never before 

 been printed." I trust, however, that I may be excused 

 for saying that this idea is incorrect, as the story appeared 

 in Dr J. Murray's " Eomanee and Prophecies of Thomas of 

 Ercildoune," published in 1872, and is to be found there 

 under the heading of "Additional Notes to the Introduction," 

 along with other notes oe the same subject contributed by 

 my husband and myself. 



