32 NETHER LOCHABER. 



Lake, only that the return of spring in the one case, instead of 

 the return of morn in the other, prompts to the outburst of 

 gladness and song : — 



" At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing, 



'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay. 

 All Nature's children feel the matin spring 



Of life reviving, with reviving day ; 

 And while yon little bark glides down the bay. 



Wafting the stranger on his way again, 

 Morn's genial influence roused a minstrel grey, 



And sweetly o'er the lake was heard thy strain. 

 Mixed with the sounding harp, O white-hair'd Allan-bane ! " 



