Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
The Bonny Bowers o Tealing
By George W. Donald (b. 1820)T
The palm-tree shades the mountain,
An’ they tell me o’ their myrtle groves,
And the crystal-gushing fountain;
They tell me o’ the clustering vine
The flowery path concealing;
But they cudna’ please this heart o’ mine
Like the bonnie bowers o’ Tealing.
The birk and broom sae yellow;
They kenna’ o’ the mavis’ sang,
Or the blackbird’s note sae mellow;
They kenna o’ the zephyrs mild,
Or the balmy breeze so healing,
That softly shakes the dewy flowers
’Mang the bonnie bowers o’ Tealing.
On Scotia’s rugged bosom;
I ’ve pu’d the rose in a’ its pride,
An’ the lily’s gowden blossom;
But the fairest flower that ere I saw
Was by the burnie, stealing
And murmuring through its gow’ny banks,
’Mang the bonny bowers o’ Tealing.