WOODNOTES OF A WANDERER.

BY

JOHN RAMSAY.

KILMARNOCK, AYRSHIRE.

SEVENTH THOUSAND.

By Druid's cairn, by martyr's stane,
By ruin gray, through churchyard lane,
By river famed, o'er battle-plain,

The wild, the dread,

The fair, entwined with deathless strain,
"Twas his to tread.

EDINBURGH:

J. MENZIES, PRINCE'S STREET.

LONDON: DAVID BOGUE. DUBLIN J. M'GLASHAN.

MD.CCC.LII.

EDINBURGH PRINTED BY MACPHERSON & SYME,

12 South St David Street.

31.12-1907

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ΤΟ

THE MEMORY

OF

ROBERT RAMSAY,

This Volume

IS

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS BEREAVED BROTHER,

THE AUTHOR.

Paterson's Attempt on the Temple of Fame,
Evening Thoughts on the Heights of Dundonald,

On the Death of My Sister, Mrs R. Parker,
Christ Weeping over Jerusalem,

Lament for Robert Tannahill,

A Visit from the Shade of Shakspere,

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Epistle to Mr John Stirling, Darvel,

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St Andrew's Message to the Scotsmen in Liverpool,
Epistle to Mr Charles Clark, Cottage-hill, Lanark,

Hughie Spiers; or, the Wonder of the Ninteenth Century,

The Tombs of the Douglasses,

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