gleniffer

Updated: May 25, 2025

He saw the girl in a little cottage, the window open to let the first of the spring air into the room, she lying well wrapped up on a couch, a few wild-flowers on the table, daffodils and primroses from the woods, pink-tipped daisies from the banks, the red dead-nettle from the hedge-rows, and perhaps herself, to please him, and out of gratitude as it were, reading some of Tannahill's songs, 'Loudon's bonnie woods and braes, 'Langsyne, beside the woodland burn, 'Keen blows the wind o'er the Braes o' Gleniffer, 'We'll meet beside the dusky glen on yon burn side. Poor child! she had probably seen but little of the country during her hard life.

William Black - The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols