Still, as I view each well-known scene,

Think what is now, and what hath been,

Seems as, to me, of all bereft

Sole friends thy woods and streams are left:

And thus I love them better still

Even in extremity of ill.

By Yarrow's stream still let me stray,

Though none should guide my feeble way

Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,

Although it chill my withered cheek;