He contributed
greatly to improve the national music; and traces of his tender
sentiment, and elegant taste, are said to exist in those witching
airs, still piped among the wild mountains and lonely glens of
Scotland. He has thus connected his image with whatever is most
gracious and endearing in the national character; he has embalmed
his memory in song, and floated his name to after ages in the rich
streams of Scottish melody. The recollection of these things was
kindling at my heart as I paced the silent scene of his
imprisonment. I have visited Vaucluse with as much enthusiasm as a
pilgrim would visit the shrine at Loretto; but I have never felt
more poetical devotion than when contemplating the old Tower and the
little garden at Windsor, and musing over the romantic loves of the
Lady Jane and the Royal Poet of Scotland.
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