Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13

anything remains upright. At Inverness column
of granite, erected MS q monument, was twisted by
this shock. The Rhymer, | insist upon it, recorded
the popular inference from the geological tradi-
tiOns of the district in his time. As for the super
natural forms of tradition, they are the shapes in
which mankind treasure up their records OF natural
wonders. The rhyming prophecy was not merely
dressed up in harmonious Scotch, there Is WISDOM
ami wit in it. In all the population, there was no
one moro likely to be reminded of the prophecy
than the only grandson OF II grandmother. There
was wisdom and kindness in the prophecy Tor the
bridge was dangerous, and the roads and river in
the vicinity were full Of perils. The rhyme was q
needful warning to caution. The parapets were
low, the arch high and narrow, and 1t was fearful
to look over and down into the GPrk depths. Not
unlrequently did it happen that the horses OF rcck-
less riders took fright. and lcapcd over the parapot
into the gulf beneath. ! have seen many n
prudent horseman dismount, and lead his horse
along the bridge. Two roads met at the northern
side of the bridge, the western one descending
stecply by q route which oyerhaags The Black
Neuk. When in the months of January and Feb
ruary the road was suddenly blocked up by snow,
5elated equcstrians, over full of confidence and
w~hiskey, sometimes mistook the turning, and, ap-
preaching too near the p%recipice, slid down into
The Black Neuk. Thus geological tradition,
shrewd wit, and warning wisdom, may all be found
in the prophecy Of Thomas the Rhymer.
y poet and several painters have echoed and
repeated, in the nineteenth century. the wizard re-
nown of the Brig O Balgounie. Byron includes
it in his brief lis Of Scottish rccollecticns, In Don
Juan.
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A whole one, and my heart flies to my head,
As "auld lang syne" brings Scotland, one and all,
Scotch plaids Scotch moods the blue hills, ard clear
streams,
The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's Briggs black wall,
All my boy-feelings, all my gentler dreams
OF what | then dreamt. clothed in their own pail.
TiLe Roro,o,s oFsrri, r. J. ao,tirr n,y,m ma sooms
H. ot;IIfroI =, .1 n. La: I'7 Ps
Wy ''"' III '",' '"''u'snne's VI n'"o'
L care not-us a glimpse OF "auld lang syne.'
In II note. he sars-"Tho brio Of Dan noar the
ould toun Of Aberdeen. Win It's own arch and it's
black deem salmon stream below isin my memorvo rs
Yesterday stilI romombar tborgb ncrh,ns I NAV
Imisonota the awful nroycrh With made me muse
To cross il. and vet loan over il with a childish de-.
lirht. heinz nm 9nlv son. Mt least bv the mothers
ode. Tho sovin, os recollccted Inv me was This .
but | have never heard or seen it since / was nine
years of are. =
Brig OF baIgounle, blacks your wa,
WI IL wiio's ae son, and u mear'S ae foul,
Down We shall ia,
The prCyerb, as given by Lord Byron, has passed
into all The Scottish guide-books. No doubt it is.
as he gives it, very nearly what he was told. y
roguIsh variation OF 1t has been made to him, to
adapt it to his own case, and apply it to his super
stltiouS fears, n variati) IN perfectly in the spirit Of
the original. But the dislitch he gives is not rhyme;
and when | read it to the old natives at the village
at the Bridge OF Don, none of them would receive
1t as the original. have gwen the verses as pre-
serE'1 ny trauit,on IN my h9tiye PARISH
Nuo'n'" u'et.nSurSnet ,Ip'Tu lt"'el' tA-
9ioleI a picture oil she DriS 0 DaISo"hie, Ia the
faris rance OF inc tlne Arts III GiSh'een huhureu
ana hlty-I'e' lle'rleu ny the ehectS ul Color 10
Prouucc inc supernatural ahH superSt"l0uS features
y ,. scGnc Wtthout having naa euouSn VI sc","S'
ical insight 10 leeI tuat inc wllohesS ana grandeur
oi Tue SpoS came from Il terrestai CONFUSION lie
mas not ,diRDpea his pencil III tho gloom oil earth-
quaKes: Inc grey Druge' the Drown TockS' Tue
olaGN river, the HI anu Deecu Trees anu tne lur%e1
bushes III tne races OF the GINS WIN " thSG Vi
hSninlhs III the Va[ieu SKY ior" uh9o"Dt'u'y d
picturesque aSsemolnse Oh coior:' anu an extra,
ordinary picture: Dut 'he painter mas missed
>ue : ,"'iueul WHICH ua'uS run u e"''niuaNe
,hr;iIad tbo H" U " ad ,onsonnon,I his go
is nnt one an ~ SSbicL tba snoctntor cam yarp mill he
feels Ike feorsof snnersGtinn cvrdl;ngo his vrins
Tba NJ !, ~ 1t;PpnrisSoI ,a s,roo,,
Tho oortInnoL" unn5n tho Crr, 4" ~ ,Lo | ri"or
Deep and dark with rocky lodges full of sediment,
the chasm is lust such an aqueous, shady bower
AS the salmon love. 1t is about a mile from the sen.
just as there are families of hereditary salmon in
the Don, there are families of hereditary fishers
upon its banks to catch them, Surclvit is a
curious DESTINY which thus establishes relations
between generations OF men and generations of
salmon. The salmon-fshers of the Don are prob.
ably of Norwegian. AS the haddock fishers Of the
Dee seem to be of Dutch origin.
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