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acceiDtance for thirteen years, he retired into private life, and 
settled in Edinburgh. But he did not cease to manifest his love of 
teaching and his interest in the young. For many years he was 
the Superintendent of Greenside Parish Sunday School. No 
position could have been more congenial to him than was this. 
He published in 1876 The Scottish Highlands, and other 
Poems. The volume was very favourably received by the press, 
and had a large circulation. If it nowhere shows us that its 
author was a great poet, it throughout shows us that he possessed 
a genuinely poetical nature, and a fervent and devout spirit. The 
feelings which inspire his verse are always pure and lovable, and 
the verse itself flows with ease and naturalness. 
Mr Young was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 5th of 
December 1881. He was also a member of the Geological Society. 
He died on the 30th of November 1889, and was buried on the 
4th of December in Ptosebank Cemetery. He was twice married, 
and is survived by a widow and daughter. 
