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I think accidental conflagration is the cause. December 12. Hogg came to breakfast this morning, having taken and brought for his companion the Galashiels bard, David Thomson, as to a meeting of "huzz Tividale poets." The honest grunter opines with a delightful naïveté that Moore's verses are far owre sweet answered by Thomson that Moore's ear or notes, I forget which, were finely strung.
All men of pleasant Tividale, Fast by the river Tweed, &c. The country of the Scotch warrior, described in these two last verses, has a fine romantic situation, and affords a couple of smooth words for verse.
... Vocat ingenti Clamore Cithseron Taygetique canes, domitrixque Epidaurus equorum: Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit. Lo, yonder doth Earl Dowglas come, His Men in Armour bright; Full twenty Hundred Scottish Spears, All marching in our Sight. All Men of pleasant Tividale, Fast by the River Tweed, etc.
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