Bramble Brae

Books in Prose by ROBERT BRIDGES (Droch)
OVERHEARD IN ARCADY
Dialogues about Howells, James, Aldrich, Stockton, Davis, Crawford, Kipling, Meredith, Stevenson, Barrie. Illustrated, Fourth Edition , $1.25.
SUPPRESSED CHAPTERS, AND OTHER BOOKISHNESS
Contents: Suppressed Chapters—Arcadian Letters—Novels that Everybody Read—The Literary Partition of Scotland—Friends in Arcady—Arcadian Opinions. Third Edition , $1.25.
Bramble Brae
By Robert Bridges ( Droch ) New York Charles Scribner’s Sons 1902
Copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner’s Sons ——— Published March, 1902 The De Vinne Press
You called the old farm Bramble Brae, And loved it till your hair was gray And footsteps faltered while you trod The sloping upland bright with sod. It blossomed in your quiet life With gowans from the Neuk of Fife; And while you walked the waving wheat You dreamed of heather and the peat. You’ve gane awa! My spirit yearns To hear you read the songs of Burns; The melody I’ve faintly caught Is just the lesson that you taught. If any hear your gentle voice In verse of mine, then I’ll rejoice And sing along my stumbling way, “He’s home again in Bramble Brae!”
On the dark decline of the unillumined verge between the two worlds. George Meredith.