SIR WALTER SCOTT'S COURTSHIP.

Evening Star, Issue 11692, 25 September 1902, Page 8

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S COURTSHIP.

It was at Gflslaud, and before he mefc'JCfs Carpenter, that ho gave “to a lady,” along with Borne; wild flowers gathered ou the fragments of Beverus’s wall, these two all-bub-forgotten fugitive quatrains: ‘ *Take these flowers ‘which, pimple waving, On the rain’d rampart grew, ‘ Where, the sons of freedom braving, ' " Rome’s imperial standards flew. Warriors from the breach of danger ' Pluck no longer laurels there; Rut they yield the passing stranger Wild-flower wreaths for Beauty’s hair. In any cash, it was on high ground near Gilsland that, one August day in 1797, Scott and Adam Fergusson were riding, when both young men were charmed by the apparition of a beautiful young girl, also on horseback. So much impressed, indeed, was the young poet-advocate that he kept the fair horsewoman in view till the divided cavalcade entered Gilslond, and he saw where the lady lived- Well, there was waiting and wooing and ultimately pledging by the Lovers’ Stone in the romantic glen of Gilsland Water ; and by Christmas the young couple were married, and Walter Scott returned to Edinburgh with much never-to-be-forgotten material for poem and tale, and a bride to give color and zest to > all lie should do with these. —‘ Harper’s Magazine.’