I smile to hear the distant tempest roar;

Here, blest with health, with business unperplex'd,

This life I relish, and secure the next.

Rosslyn Glen was a lovely place, almost like a fairy scene, and we wondered if Burns had it in his mind when he wrote:

Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon,

Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume;

Far dearer to me yon lone glen of green bracken,

Wi' the burn stealing under the long yellow broom.


PENNICUICK HOUSE COURT