In fact, since the time of Burns, it has been losing its hold on the public mind.

It is a remarkable fact that neither Scott nor Wilson, both admirers of Burns, both copious writers of poetry themselves, both also so distinguished as writers of Scottish _prose_, should have written any poetry strictly in the form of pure Scottish dialect.

"Jock o' Hazeldean" I hardly admit to be an exception.

It is not Scottish.

If, indeed, Sir Walter wrote the scrap of the beautiful ballad in the "Antiquary"-- "Now haud your tongue, baith wife and carle, And listen, great and sma', And I will sing of Glenallan's Earl, That fought at the red Harlaw"-- one cannot but regret that he had not written more of the same.
Campbell, a poet and a Scotsman, has not attempted it.