The  Bible  on  which  they  plighted  their  faith  was  long  in
the  possession  of  the  sister  of  Mary  Campbell.  On  the  first
volume  is  written  by  the  hand  of  Burns  :  ''  And  ye  shall
not  swear  by  my  name  falselj^  :  I  am  the  Lord."  Leviticus,
chap,  xix.,  verse  12.  On  the  second  volume,  the  same  hand
has  written  :  "Thou  shalt  not  forswear  thyself,  but  shalt
perform  unto  the  Lord  thine  oaths. "  St.  Matthew,  chap,  v.,
verse  33.  And  on  the  blank  leaves  of  both  volumes  is  im-
pressed his  mark  as  a  mason,  and  also  signed  below,
"Robert  Burns,  Mossgiel."

Burns's  affection  for  the  early  object  of  his  love  died  only
with  him.  More  than  three  years  after  the  death  of  Mary
Campbell,  "  whose  bosom,"  to  use  his  own  language,  "  was
fraught  with  truth,  honour,  constancy,  and  love,"  he  wrote
one  of  the  most  exquisite  of  his  poems — the  address  "  To
Mary  in  Heaven."  Sweetly  and  well  has  Campbell  sung  in
his  Ode  to  the  Memory  of  Burns  : —

"  Who  that  has  melted  o'er  his  lay,
To  Mary's  soitl  in  Heaven  above,

But  pictur'd  sees,  in  fancj'  strong,
The  landscape  and  the  live-long  d&y,

That  smil'd  upon  their  mutual  love  ?
Who  that  has  felt,  forgets  the  song  ?  "


lOt  Highland  Mary.
HIGHLAND   MARY.
From  "  Loves  of  the  Poets."
By  MRS.  J  AM  1  ESQ  N.
