_Thracia's hills_ supposed a favourite resort of Mars. _Feather'd king_ the Eagle of Jupiter, admirably described by Pindar in a passage here imitated by Gray. _Idalia_: in Cyprus, where _Cytherea_ (Venus) was especially worshipped. _Hyperion_: the Sun. St. 6-8 allude to the Poets of the Islands and Mainland of Greece, to those of Rome and of England. _Theban Eagle_: Pindar. Poem 141. _chaste-eyed Queen_: Diana. Poem 142. _Attic warbler_: the nightingale. Poem 144. _sleekit_: sleek; _bickering brattle_: flittering flight; _laith_: loth; _pattle_: ploughstaff; _whyles_: at times; _a daimen icker_: a corn-ear now and then; _thrave_: shock; _lave_: rest; _foggage_: aftergrass; _snell_: biting; _but hald_: without dwelling-place; _thole_: bear; _cranreuch_: hoarfrost; _thy lane_: alone; _a-gley_: off the right line, awry. Poem 147. Perhaps the noblest stanzas in our language. Poem 148. _stoure_: dust-storm; _braw_: smart. Poem 149. _scaith_: hurt; _tent_: guard; _steer_: molest. Poem 151. _drumlie_: muddy; _birk_: birch. Poem 152. _greet_: cry; _daurna_: dare not.--There can hardly exist a poem more truly tragic in the highest sense than this: nor, except Sappho, has any Poetess known to the Editor equalled it in excellence. Poem 153. _fou_: merry with drink; _coost_: carried; _unco skeigh_: very proud; _gart_: forced; _abeigh_: aside; _Ailsa craig_: a rock in the Firth of Clyde; _grat his een bleert_: cried till his eyes were bleared; _lowpin_: leaping; _linn_: waterfall; _sair_: sore; _smoor'd_: smothered; _crouse and canty_: blythe and gay. Poem 154. Burns justly named this "one of the most beautiful songs in the Scots or any other language." One verse, interpolated by Beattie, is here omitted:--it contains two good lines, but is quite out of harmony with the original poem. _Bigonet_: little cap, probably altered from _beguinette_; _thraw_: twist; _caller_: fresh. Poem 155. _airts_: quarters; _row_: roll; _shaw_: small wood in a hollow, spinney; _knowes_: knolls. Poem 156. _jo_: sweetheart; _brent_: smooth; _pow_: head. Poem 157. _leal_: faithful; _fain_: happy. Poem 158. Henry VI. founded Eton. Poem 161.