The place is quite a solitude, and the surrounding scenery very striking.

How much is it to be regretted that, instead of writing such poems as the 'Holy Fair,' and others in which the religious observances of his country are treated with so much levity, and too often with indecency, Burns had not employed his genius in describing religion under the serious and affecting aspects it must so frequently take.
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*_Composed at Corra Linn, in sight of Wallace Tower_.[II.] I had seen this celebrated waterfall twice before.

But the feelings to which it had given birth were not expressed till they recurred in presence of the object on this occasion.
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*_Effusion in the Pleasure-ground on the Banks of the Braw, near Dunkeld_.[III.] I am not aware that this condemnatory effusion was ever seen by the owner of the place.