Where can we match, in flowery May,
Fair Habbie’s Howe, and Hawthornden?
Alex. Farquharson.
Lanely Bield. Carlops, 1885.
MONK’S BURN.
Doon in Monk’s bonnie verdant glen
A sparklin’ birnie murmurs through
Dark waving pines, ’mang hazel shaws
Decked with the hawk-weed’s golden hue.
It ripples aft ’neath ferny banks