Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ochil Hills | | Where, Braving Angry Winter’s Storms | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | WHERE, braving angry winter’s storms, | |
| The lofty Ochils rise, | |
| Far in their shade my Peggy’s charms | |
| First blest my wondering eyes; | |
| As one who by some savage stream | 5 |
| A lonely gem surveys, | |
| Astonished, doubly marks its beam, | |
| With art’s most polished blaze. | |
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| Blest be the wild, sequestered shade, | |
| And blest the day and hour, | 10 |
| Where Peggy’s charms I first surveyed, | |
| When first I felt their power! | |
| The tyrant Death, with grim control, | |
| May seize my fleeting breath; | |
| But tearing Peggy from my soul | 15 |
| Must be a stronger death. | | | | |
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