25 AUGUST 1888, Page 18

GLEN ALMOND.

YES, we have wandered far, and we have found . Schools wrapped about with old baronial trees, Schools fenced by city walls, or wide on leas That slope to happy farms, on classic ground ; Have heard the vast cathedral's holy sound Peal to the lads in play; have felt the breeze Bring up the flood from castled terraces, The dreams that make the scholar's young heart bound.

But when we heard the "Almain" in her glen Chant the deep Highland music Ossian knew, And looked far forth from fair Glen Almond's towers To Grampian's purple breast and Sidlaw's blue, We cried : "Here Nature is the nurse of men !

Here school is strong with more than mortal powers!"

H. D. R.