The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-08-11

for the imagination of the poet and
the demands of the romantieist, but
these doubts have, in the main, been
dispelled by an actual investigation
of the wild country where the plot
was laid. Loreh Kathrine is all that
my fancy had painted it, and Eal-
lens Isle, in all its loneliness, is there
to this day to voueh for the truth Of
the poets picture. | saw the very.
:" . rock with litehens wild,
Beside which Ellen safe and smiled :
Smiled to see the stately drake
Lead forth his fleet upon the lake.
While her vex'd spaniel from the beach,
Bayd the prize beyond his reach"
81 saw the very spot whence young
Malcolm Graeme
plunged into flashing tide, and
Behold DER the flood his head he bore,
And stoutly steered him from the shore.n
! saw, or could have seen had the
sun been shining but saw in fancy,
the mountain eagle,
"As from the cliffs of Benvenue,
She spread her dark sails on the wind
Add, high in middle heaven reelined,
With her broad shadow on the lake.
Silence the warblera of the Brake.n
| saw the southern brown OF
"Uam-Var,' upon which the noble
stag, in following which Fitz James
was led to Ellen's side, paused to
gam time in which to figure out how
best he could outwit the bold hunt
er, and from whence he saw,-as
did,
" - the eopsewood grey
T hat waved and wept on Loeb -Achray."
| crossed THE Br1gg of Turk. =
oyer which Fitz James rode alone,
the other hunters having fallen out
of the chase, and passed through
the deep Trosaehs widest nook, "
whefe his gallant grey fell exhausted,
to rise no more. | saw Ben-an, on
whose bold promontory he stood
and said,
What scene were here he cried
For princely pomp, or or churchman's pride
ON this bold brow Iordv tower.
In that soft vale ladys bower;
on yonder meadow, far away,
The turrets of cloister gray;
How blithely might the bugle. horn
Glide, on the lake the lingering morn
How sweet, at eve. the lovers lutte
Chime, when the groves were still and mutei'9
| saw from my high seat on the
coach the path along which Roderick
Dhu piloted Fitz James,
Far past Clan Aipine's outmost guard, =
looked with my own eyes upon
"Coilantogle's ford" where Scot
lands King brought the bold high.
lander to earth, and finally stood in
Stirling Castle, and looked into the
very dungeon where bold Roberick,
was held prisoner. Get out your
Lady of the Lake, reader, and go
over it again, for it is one of the
finest things in the English language.
Why, the japanese Professor who
came over on the Teutonic with me
said he had never read anything that
pleased him so well as Scott, and es-
pecially his Lady of the Lake. And
when you read it, believe with me
that it all happened just as set down
therein. There is this about tiff it
didn't happen as Scott says. it did,
It should have happened, for the
conditions were favorable to the
development of Just such a wild ro-
sauce, also saw, on Lorch Lo-
uo,d mob Roy's cave, and Rob
Rows nris, a, though which was his
home and which 'os his prison was
not very clear, the tsno'i''es aP
parently differing. l dit.NSe W
Lomond, because the weather *
as the Captain of the Prince Georh
said, "like Scotch broth, bit thick, ="
meaning that the mist hung over the
mountains like immense wells, dis
closing only the nearer slopes.
had foolish fancy that Ben Lomond
might not look like picture of it l
remember seeing in a school reader
when | was a very small boy, and
which greatly impressed me because
of the accompanying story which
told Of the adventures OF a horse
that was compelled, under some un-
fortuitous circumstances, to climb
the mountain and then swim the
lake, for the photographs of it, OF
which there are extensive editions all
over Scotland, disclose 1t just as it
looked into my youthful eyes.
| am sure need say nothing of
the castles and old churches have
seen. They are written of more full
ly than ! could possibly hope to do,
and then | am not sure | would get
my facts just right, for hurried ex-
animation is not at all satisfactory,