That knits me to thy rugged strand!

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.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

BALMORAL.—THE OLD CASTLE.