Perhaps we ought to except some allusions in his future songs, and especially that grand song, Macpherson's Farewell, which, though composed several months after this tour was over, must have drawn its materials from the day spent at Duff House, where he was shown the sword of the Highland Reiver.
"Robert Burns"
Principal Shairp
And 'tis little you heed how it is with me,' exclaimed James, 'when you are gone to your daffing and singing and dancing-with me that have saved you from that Reiver Hepburn.
"Two Penniless Princesses"
Charlotte M. Yonge
They are prisoners to latroni-un routier-sceleratissimo-Reiver-Balchenburg!
"Two Penniless Princesses"
Charlotte M. Yonge