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Otherwise you won't read mine Ambarvalia, at any rate at all. Quo usque? But when the books arrive, my father writes to his sister with affectionate welcome indeed of the Poems by A, but with enthusiasm of the "Bothie." It greatly surpasses my expectations! It is on the whole a noble poem, well held together, clear, full of purpose, and full of promise.
Time seemed to stand still; and, after ruminating for a season on the means of averting such a misfortune, he took a pair of stockings, and, having placed them on the hearthstone of his bothie no one being present he proceeded to pound that part of them called the heels with the head of the poker.
Meanwhile he published a volume of poetry, including the celebrated Bothie, about which Froude wrote to him: "I was for ever falling upon lines which gave me uneasy twitchings; e.g. the end of the love scene: "And he fell at her feet, and buried his face in her apron. "I daresay the head would fall there, but what an image!
What I like infinitely better is Clough's 'Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, a 'long vacation pastoral, written in loose and more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour and freshness, and with passages and indeed whole scenes of great beauty and eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems. Try to get it, if you have not read it already.
When the central stall, or bothie, in the Carrara grounds was reached, after passing in full state and order over two of the bridges, the procession halted before a group of the Rotherwood family, Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield, Lady Flight, and other local grandees, with the clergy, who had declined to walk in procession.
So a' set oot an' ransackit the parish till a' got him, an' gin he wesna sittin' in a bothie takin' brose wi' the plowmen, an' expoundin' Scripture a' the time.
He had not yet traduced his friends, nor flattered his enemies, nor disparaged what he admired, nor praised what he despised. Those who knew him well had the conviction that, even with time, these literary arts would never be his. His poem, The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, has some admirable Homeric qualities out-of-doors freshness, life, naturalness, buoyant rapidity.
And occasionally one could be more adventurous still one could go and stay for a night or two at the Bothie at Alt-na-giuthasach a mere couple of huts with "a wooden addition" and only eleven people in the whole party! And there were mountains to be climbed and cairns to be built in solemn pomp.
The poet of the "Bothie" becomes the poet of "Dipsychus," "Easter Day," and the "Amours de Voyage"; and the young republican who writes in triumph all humorous joy and animation to my father, from the Paris of 1848, which has just seen the overthrow of Louis Philippe, says, a year later February 24, 1849: To-day, my dear brother republican, is the glorious anniversary of '48, whereof what shall I now say?
Edgar's boys, ready to eat at any time of day; they looked civilly at the Varley Elizabethans, and found Lady Merrifield in the midst o£ her bothie, made charming with fresh green branches and purple heather, imported by the Vanderkists. "That's Penbeacon ling. I know that red tint in the mauve," said Geraldine; "I'll give you half-a-crown, if your decorations can spare that spiring spray!"
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