was placed. The admiration with which they have been received wherever known, ensures the author no inconsiderable station among those who have employed the language, and sung the loves of Caledonia. It is pleasing to observe a person in his walk of life deriving the inspiration of genius from the original source of nature, receiving refined pleasure from wooing nature in her retired agreeable haunts; and, while thus solacing himself for the miseries inseparable from the lot of humanity, administering to the enjoyments of his countrymen, by pouring forth his feelings in strains not unworthy of one born in happier circumstances, and favoured with a more liberal education. CONTENTS. Ode, written for, and read at the celebration of Robert Burns' Birth Day, 1805,. Ode, written for, and performed at the cele- Stanzas, written with a pencil on the grave- On A. Wilson's Emigration to America, 86 88% 91 93, Lines written on the back of a Guinea Note, Lines, written on seeing a Spider dart out upon a Fly, Lines, on seeing a Fop pass an old Beggar, 94 95 96 ib. 98 A Resolve. Written on hearing a fellow tell some stories to the hurt of his best friends, Epigrams, EPITAPHS. On seeing a once worthy character lying in a state of inebriation on the street, On T. B. Esq; 99 On a crabbed old Maid, Jessie the Flower of Dumblane, Thro' Cruikston Castle's lonely wa's, The Braes of Balquhither, Companion of my youthful sports, O sair I rue the witless wish, Ellen More, Green Inismore, The worn Soldier, From the rude bustling camp, Fragment of a Scottish Ballad, The midges dance aboon the burn, When John and me were married, O row thee in my Highland Plaid, Responsive, ye woods, The Defeat, |