Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips should flow;
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
James Hogg’s Verses.
James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, who had listened to the bird with delight on the Scottish hills, thus sings of it:—
Bird of the wilderness,
Blithesome and cumberless,
Sweet is thy matin o’er moorland and lea!