Fareweel my deep glen, speck'd wi' sloe, O' tangled hazles full; Green leas and heathery hills, where low My kine and glourin bull. Fareweel my red deer, jutting proud, Fareweel my sheep, that sprattle on, Or lie on cliffs, the rocks aboon, Fareweel my burn, that wimpling rins, My scaly tribe, wi' gowden fins, Fareweel my boat, and lusty oars, 1. 3. Heathery, heathy.-1. 4. Glourin, sulky. 1. 7. Lilting, singing.-1. 10. Braw, handsome. 1. 11. Aboon, above.-1. 13. Wimpling, dimpling. 1. 16. Flickering, twinkling.l. 18. Skelp, dash. Fareweel my braes on Tiviot shores, Fareweel my neighbours, whase swift steed Soom'd drumlie floods when moons were dead, Maist dear for a' ye shared wi' me Fareweel my winsome wife, sae gay, Fareweel my gowk! thy warning note Then aft-times ca'ed aloud, Tho' o' the word that swal'd thy throat, 1. 1. Braes, high banks.-1. 5. Soom'd, swam. And pawky gowk, sae free that maid'st, Or e'er I hanged be, Would I might learn if true thou said'st When sae thou said'st to me! 1.1. Pawky, sly. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGEWICK WHALLEY, ON LEAVING HIS SEAT, MENDIP LODGE, IN SOMERSET FAREWELL, my friend! who 'mid thy Alpine bowers, Yes, e'en tho' sorrow aid the frost of time, High on thy mountain-eminence I stand, Pledges of life, see villas throng'd acquire Turn to the orient sun their golden vanes. While yonder, stretching far its amber line, These, seen from the full shades that crown thy hill, On me the various landscape shines in vain, Each generous kindness, worth without alloy, 1. 7. The brine-Bristol Channel. Milton uses the word brine for the sea, "The air was calm, and on the level brine 1. 10. Veranda-An Italian colonade roofed. Lycidas, |