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the most beautiful of cities at his feet . Go , go along , all round and through ; have a glorious toss upon the rolling billows of the Hebrides and the Orkneys ; dip your arm in the deep waters of the transparent Tay ; mount Ben Lomond , and look east and west , Stirling Castle and Dumbarton , the Forth and
the Clyde , —there is all Scotland before you , and Ireland in the horizon ; see Perth the lovely , in its lovely valley ; make your way from Loch Katrine through Glencoe to Inverary , and so to Glenco , where heaven roofs in the close mountain walls , and the torrents of Ossian are resounding yet ; never heed our order , we are not writing an itinerary for the feet but the 6
fancy , and so for the next iwill ye go , will ye go , to the Birks of Aberfeldy ? " Beautiful are they in the ravine by the falls of Moness , and there gather your woodrifte , nowhere else is it so fragrant ; and , above all , do not forget Loch Leven—not Queen Mary ' s , see that , too—but the northern Loch Leven , which you will come to after you have been to Glenco and
Ben Nevis , and through the Caledonian canal , stopping at Fyres , from Inverness , and before you start for Staffa and the holy Iona ; yes , you must then see Loch Leven , and the lone burial isle of the clan amid its dark waters . Fairly on board the steamer back ; not before ; or when you are housed again within sound of Bow-bell ; or at the following Christmas ; or
for an anniversary , you may , if you like , sing our song , unless you can make a better , which is not difficult , for in sooth it is rather rough , but it shews Scotland to be a moral country , physically as well as mentally , and full of the emblems of
true-heartedness . Pledge the true-hearted , Whose souls are as clear As the Tay ' s lovely waters In sunshine appear .
Pledge the true-hearted , Whose love is as strong As the tide that is flowing The Orkneys among . Pledge the true-hearted , Whose faith will not shake While the heights of Ben Lomoiul Stand fast by the lake .
Pledge the true-hearted , Who lighten our mirth As the sun brightens more The hright valley of Perth . Pledge the true-hearted , Who long feel our wrongs As Glenco ' s old torrents Breathe Ossian / s old songs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/5/
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