We had scarce left Staffa when the wind and rain returned.

Lockhart, Life of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1878).

FOOTNOTES:

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“——that wondrous dome,

Where, as to shame the temples deck’d

By skill of earthly architect,

Nature herself, it seem’d, would raise,

A minster to her Maker’s praise!

Not for a meaner use ascend