My Lord and Lady Darlington,

I would not speak in snarling-tone;

Nor, to you, good Lady Vane,

Would I give one moment’s pain;

Nor Miss Taylor, Captain Stamp, 5

Would I your flights of memory cramp.

Yet, having spent a summer’s day

On the green margin of Loch Tay,

And doubled (prospect ever bettering)

The mazy reaches of Loch Katerine, 10