To good Saint Fillan[FN] and to fair Saint Anne;
And from long banishment recal Saint Giles,[FO]
To watch again with tutelary love
O'er stately Edinborough throned on crags?
A blessed restoration,[FP] to behold
The patron, on the shoulders of his priests,
Once more parading through her crowded streets
Now simply guarded by the sober powers
Of science, and philosophy, and sense!"
This answer followed.—"You have turned my thoughts