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lochnagar. (To the Editor). , r ’~lu your issue of vesterdaA- I read tnat Bortl Byron composed the aboA-e on viewing the majesty of the uT.u ancl lts mirrounding mountains,” but there is no mention of the loch tne ' poet looked upon. There are no lochs m the vicinity to which the term . ■ majesty” could to applied. The loch ? P , the poet s fancy is not a loch at all. Ihe object Avhich cheered Byron with, its tiamtional stories is a steep frownmg mountain 3750 leet- high, huge masses of granite devoid of verdure and lioAAeis by the chilling blasts of “Avhere winter presides in Ills cold icy car.” I a am convinced, however, that there will lie no- icy AA'inter” AA'hen “Lochnagar” js sung on the 24th, but Avarm-htearted cordiality, the nature of which is only peculiar to Scots, and AAortli going miles to see. ■ The Hawera Scottish Society is Avorthy of support from all Caledonians.—l am. etc., _ _ WILL BE THERE. June 18, 1924.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 4
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