...which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. Merrily, merrily goes the bark3 On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.* Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose5 The cormorant...

...MONBO'S Description of the Western Isles, p. 18. 1 [See Appendix, Note O.] * [See Appendix, Note E.] So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, , Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant...

...of Scotland's poet is the only adequate one, and will bear repetition for the thousandth time: — " The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark...And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose, The eormorant had...

...the Island Lord's command, For hunting spear took warrior's brand. Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, That guard famed StafFa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose...

...MONRO'S Description of the Western Isles, p. 18. 1 [See Appendix, Note O.] ' [See Appendix, Note R. ] So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had...

...my father was born. It is one of that cluster of the Hebrides thus alluded to by Walter Scott:— " 'And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffs, round.'* " Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends which...

...MONRO'S Description of the Western Isles, p. 18. 1 [See Appendix, Note Q.~\ * \_See K^ewtas., Nate E.] So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had...

...MONRO'S Description of the Western Isles, p. 18. 1 [See Appendix, Note OJ • [See Appendix, Note E.] So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd repose The cormorant had...

...Chapters.) . < BY THE AUTHOR OF "MAGDALEN STAFFORD." CHAP. I. " Merrily, merrily goes the bark, On a breeze from the northward free ; So shoots through...sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea." • • , Lord of the Isles. I must keep my promise, dearest Susy, and write a minute narrative of...

...of our readers, recommending the work itself * " The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And TJlra dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stafla round. Then all unknown its columns rose. Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had...