Who is Maremna?—

A noble’s child, rear’d amidst Nature’s scenes,

Her earliest friends! They guided her first steps,

Speaking of God and His stupendous works

Long ere Religion’s dogma intervened.

Child of a chieftain o’er whose broad domains

She roamed, a happy, free, unfetter’d waif,

Loving the mountain crag and forest lone,

The straths and corries, rugged glens and haunts

Of the red deer and dove-like ptarmigan;