THE SPIRITUAL PILGRIM. CHAPTER I. PLANTS, BIRDS, AND FLOWERS. "Flood the new heavens and earth, and with thee bring WHITTIER. THE rough diamond polished in adversity, the child brained in philosophy, the orator tongued in love, the pilgrim grayed in wintry storms, the seer translated in a chariot of God, the ministering angel now, such is life, O exiles! "Let all harmonies Of sound, form, color, motion, wait upon Julius Cæsar forced obedience in Britain, centuries of discipline. Then a colony of industrious citizens - paternally Roman, maternally Scottish settled a high elevation on the northern bank of the Tweed, inland from the sea, south from beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland. It was democratically named Peebles, from the Latin populi, many people. It was the resort of the Scottish kings and queens during the summer months. Alexander III. sought its hunting-grounds, when tired of war. After the battle of Nevill-Cross, in which David II. was taken prisoner, the town of Peebles contributed so largely for his ransom it was created a royal burgh; when titles were conferred upon the families of Peebles, making them eligible to seats in parliaThis continued till the passage of "The Reform Act." Wal ment. |