Written with a pencil, standing by the Falls of Fyers, near Loch Ness
Written at the fall of Fyers ----
Among the heathy hills and ragged woods
The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods,
Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds
Where thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resound
As high in air the bursting torrents flow,
As deep-recoiling surges foam below:
Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends
And viewless Echo's ear affrighted rends:
Dim-seen thro' rising mists and ceaseless showe
The hoary cavern wide-surrounding towers:
Still urging through the gap the river toils
And still the horrid deep, dark-raging boils. ----
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Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/36
- Alt. number
- 3.6176
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/36
- Alt. number
- 3.6176
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Description
Written with a pencil, standing by the Falls of Fyers, near Loch Ness.
Begins "Amang the healthy hills and ragged woods". Manuscript also in Glenriddell Vol. 1.
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs
(
a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Written with a pencil, standing by the Falls of Fyers, near Loch Ness
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