 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...blessed a man with a generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment we met by appointment on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the banks of the Ayr, where we spent the day in taking farewell, before she should embark for the West Highlands,... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - Europe - 1914 - 260 pages
...port of Cantyre behind "Arran's mountain isle." Of this parting Burns says, in a letter to Thomson, "We met by appointment on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot on the Ayr, where we spent the day in taking farewell before she should embark for the West Highlands... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...is Burns' autograph and beneath lies a tress of Highland Mary's hair. Of their parting Burns says: "We met by appointment on the second Sunday of May in a sequestered spot on the Ayr, where we spent the day in taking farewell before she should embark for the West Highlands... | |
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My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment, on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the... 
