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`But how shall I hate thee, even though towards me thou hast become cold?
When my discourse is most angry concerning thy name in thine absence,
Of sudden thine image, with its old dearness, comes visibly into my mind;
And a secret voice whispers that love will yet prevail!
_And I become surety for it anew, darling,
And it springs up at that hour lofty as a tower._'
``Rude and bald as these things appear in a verbal translation,
and rough as they might possibly appear, even were the
originals intelligible, we confess we are disposed to think they
would of themselves justify Dr Mackay (their Editor) in
placing this herdsman-lover among the true sons of song.''---
_Quarterly Review, No. XC. July 1831_.
[10. The Surgeon's Daughter Introduction]
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
SURGEON'S DAUGHTER.
The tale of the Surgeon's Daughter formed
part of the second series of Chronicles of the
Canongate, published in 1827; but has been
separated from the stories of The Highland
Widow, &c., which it originally accompanied,
and deferred to the close of this collection, for
reasons which printers and publishers will understand,
and which would hardly interest the
general reader.
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