Excerpt from PoemsIt was his observation and experience as a shepherd lad on the Ochil Hills that enriched his mind with the choice and beautiful thoughts which later he enshrined in song. The fields, the Woods, the. Streams, and their ¿oral and fauna] inhabitants all appealed to his poetic instinct, and easily and naturally he sung them in responsive verse. This he did with a purity of thought and an unerring choice of words and metres that could hardly be excelled. As one of Scotland's sons he was proficient in her native tongue and loved it with a passionate fondness. He even insisted that it was not, as usually imagined, a dialect, -but a language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.