Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
To Ross Dhu
By James CochraneO
Ross Dhu! have I stole into with my shallop,
And, dashing quickly on, put to the gallop
The browsing kine within thy oaken groves;
My feelings much akin to his who roves
Some new-discovered isle, at every sound,
Real or imagined, starting, as behoves
The boy who ventures on forbidden ground.
Unchallenged now I pass, but feel no more
Those exquisite delights I felt of yore,
When foresters and keepers in my sight
Were very satyrs, whom I sought to fly,
Yet wished to see; for danger is delight,
And fear is one great element of joy!