For naebody saw Jamie e’er come back the gate he gaed.
But mony an eldritch screech was heard within the lonesome glen,
Though what the dirdum did wi’ him, I’m sure I dinna ken.
There. And yet I don’t think myself an eminently—scarcely a moderately—successful Scotch poet! Ne sutor I say.
Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Hemans,
(Née BROWNE)
Born 1794. Died in Dublin, May 16, 1835.
THE HOMES OF ENGLAND.