Spare Hours Author:John Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my pea be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." Now we see down into the Yarrow; there is the famo... more »us stream twinkling in the sun. What stream and valley was ever so be-sung! You wonder at first why this has been, but the longer you look the less you wonder. There is a charm about it, it is not easy to say what. The huge sunny hills in which it is embosomed give it a look at once gentle and serious. They are great, and their gentleness makes them greater. Wordsworth has the right words, "pastoral melancholy"; and besides, the region is " not uninformed with fantasy and looks that threaten the profane," the Flowers of Yarrow, the Douglas Tragedy, the Dowie Dens, Wordsworth's Yarrow Unvisited, Visited, and Revisited, and, above all, the glamour of Sir Walter, and Park's fatal and heroic story. Where can you find eight more exquisite lines anywhere than Logan's, which we all know by heart ? " His mother from the window looked, With all the longing of a mother; His little sister, weeping, walked The greenwood path to meet her brother. They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the forest thorough, They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow." And there is Newark Tower among the rich woods j and Harehead, that cosiest, loveliest, and hospitablest of nests. Methinks I hear certain young voices among the hazels; out they come on the little haugh by the side of the deep, swirling stream, fabulosus as was ever Hydaspes There they go " running races in their mirth," and is nol that an me ludit amabilis insania ? the voice of ma vauvre petite,animosa infans the wilful, rich-eyed, delicious Eppie? " 0 blessed vision, happy child, Thou art so exquis...« less