Excerpt from The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. 1 of 2 To me it has often seemed curious and puzzling that at any time in the history of Scottish national feeling, and especially national poetry, there should not have been a deep, quick, and impassioned emo tion for the hills, the glens, the burns, and the gleaming rivers of the country, - such as the Tweed and the N ith, the Teviot and the Tay. It has even appeared to me surprising that the mists in the glens and on the hills, With their breaks, their wreaths, and the cleaving glints of sunshine through them, Should not always have been to the onlooker a source of wonder and delight. How the wavy lines of mountains which stretch across vol. I. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.