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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1887)
THE S00TTI8II BORDER. The sun ujwn the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick'i vale, U ninking sweet; The wentland wind i huah and Mill, The lake lion ultvping at my feet. Yet, not the landscape to mine eye Iloan thoae bright hurt that once it tare ; Though evening, with her richent dye, Flamed o'er the hill of F.ttrkVi horc. With trnaire look along the plain, 1 aeo Tweed's silver rurrrnt glide, And padly mark the holy (ane Of UndWame'i ruined pride. Hie quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree Are thry still smh aa oiwe they wire? Or U the dreary chango in me? SPHERE waa little sleep for ua tho kirk-nano o your whigmnleeriea ami I nigbt before leaving Ayr. The curlicwurliea and ocn steek hem boiateroua atrcet revellers, most of about it - a' solid, weel joints ma them "unco fou," kept up tho excitement aon wark, that will stand aa long of ushering in tho new year till into tho aa the warld, keep hands and gun small hours, and commenced again by powthcr of! it It had atnaiat a doun daylight, one custom, among other curi- come lang syne at tho reformation, when oub ones, being that of burning all the they pu'd down tho kirks o St Androws old almanacs in town before tho door of and Perth, and there awa to cloanao the principal hotel. them o' Pajcry and idolatry and tango On our way to the station next morn- worship and sarplicea and aio like, sao ing, every other man we met waa, with tho commons o Renfrow, and o' tho either ale 01 whisky, Rarouy, and a' about, they behooved to (iloriuu, como into Glasgow ao fair morning, to O'er all the ilia o' life victorious, try their hand at purging tho High Kirk and as the holidays of tho Scottish New o Papiah nick-nacketa. Bao they suno Year last from ono week to two, one may camo to an agreement to take a' tho idol imagine tho state of things beforo they atrous statues of saints (sorrow lx on close On the route to Coatbridge, wo them) out o' their neuka. And sao the passed through Paisley and surrounding biU o' stano idols wero broken in piea-a country, crossing the Clyde at Glasgow, by scripturo warrant, and tho auld kirk and of course not failing to visit ita re- stood aa crouae aa a cat when tho fla nowncd cathedral, in the crypt of which aro kairaeti off her, and a bady waa alike Scott lays the scene of Rob Roy's mys- pleased. And I hao heard whw folk say, tcrioua warning to Francis Oabaldistone. that if tho same Lad beeu douo in ilka This church, the only metropolitan one kirk in Scotland, tho reform wad hao in Scotland, with a single exception, that been as pure aa it ia o'en now, and wo remained uninjured at the reformation, wad hao mair chriatian-like kirks." prodacca a great effect upon tho mind, Tho narrow strip of country around in ita impreaaive majesty, and Andrew Paisley ha prodoo! about one-half tho Fairscrrioe thus accounts for ita preaer- number of ScottUh potts, waa tho do tation in Rob Roy. "Ah! it's t brave routeat region of tho covenant, and still