" The Heart of Midlothian'' 



And so it comes to pass that we have 

 here to record the fact that the gates 

 whereby we reach this new Midlothian 

 swing freely ever to release from bond- 

 age the weary wearers of a city's 

 chains. Here they receive indeed the 

 benediction of blue skies, God's sun- 

 light and the open country. It is of 

 certain phases of this blessed liberty 

 amongst the clover blossoms that I, 

 a hardened galley slave, would speak. 



