...? Ettricke Foreste is the fairest foreste That evir man saw wi' his e'e. Sang of the Outlaw Murray* The scenes are desert now and bare Where flourished once a forest fair, Up pathless Ettricke and on Yarrow, Where erst the Outlaw drew his arrow. SCOTT. SELKIRKSHIRE adjoins...

...with forest, now bare and cheerless, brought us to the tree in question. It was the Oak of Ravenshead, one of the last survivors of Old Sherwood, and which...desert. " The scenes are desert now, and bare Where flourish'd once a forest fair. * * * * * Yon lonely oak, would he could tell > The changes of his parent...

...the prospect fair. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO П. TO THE REV. JOHN MARRIOT, м. л. tiel, Etlrick Foreit THE scenes are desert now, and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair,1 When these waste glens with copse were lined, And peopled with tne hart and hind. Yon thorn...

...fair. jftarmian. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO SECOND TO THE KEY. JOHN MARRIOTT, AM Atliestiel, Ettrick Form. fair,9 When these waste glens with copse were lined, And peopled with the hart and hind. Yon Thorn...

...also Mary — the pathos of the glens touched and quickened a chord of poetry in the heart. Though The scenes are desert now, and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair, Up pathless Ettrick and on Yarrow, Where erst the Outlaw drew his arrow, — 162 yet we can well understand...

...with forest, now bare and cheerless, brought us to the tree in question. It was the Oak of Bavenshead, one of the last survivors of old Sherwood, and which...and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair, When these waste glens with copse were lined, And peopled with the hart and hind. Yon lonely oak, would...

...with forest, now bare and cheerless, brought us to the tree in question. It was the Oak of Ravenshead, one of the last survivors of old Sherwood, and which...and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair, When these waste glens with copse were lined, And peopled with the bar t and hind. Yon lonely oak, would...

...wood, and its popular designation sti.l is " The Forest," of which no vestige is now to be seen. " The scenes are desert now, and bare, "Where flourished once a forest fair, Up pathless Ettrick nnd on Yarrow, "Where erst the outlaw drew his arrow." SCOTT. Turning up the vale...

...air, And met the river breezes there. Which gave again the prospect fair INTRODUCTION TO CANTO SECOND THE scenes are desert now and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair, When these waste giens with copse were And peopled with the hart and hind. Yon thorn — perchance whose...

...horse of price ; and the women of Norham brought them to the foote men to follow the chase." NOTE F.1 The scenes are desert now, and bare, Where flourished once a forest fair. — P. 75. Ettrick Forest, now a range of mountainous sheepwalks, was anciently reserved for the pleasure...