[211] By Crawfurd.
[212] By Ramsay.
[213] The author, John Tait, a writer to the Signet and some time Judge of the police-court in Edinburgh, assented to this, and altered the line to,
“And sweetly the wood-pigeon cooed from the tree.”
“How sweet this lone vale, and how soothing to feeling,
Yon nightingale’s notes which in melody meet.”
The song has found its way into several collections.