Grow beautiful beneath his touch.

Him, in his clay-built cot,[82] the muse

Entranced, and showed him all the forms

Of fairy-light and wizard gloom

(That only gifted Poet views),

The Genii of the floods and storms,

And martial shades from Glory’s tomb.

On Bannock-field what thoughts arouse

The swain whom Burns’s song inspires?

Beat not his Caledonian veins,