ONE day in the Highlands while taking a stroll I saw a stray sheep down a precipice roll; A boy was let down by a rope o'er the brink, And the sheep was pull'd up by the horns: you may think What a beautiful picture it was, the whole scene. "A picture!—a @3bas-relief@1 surely you mean!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A SNOWFLAKE by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE LASS O' BALLOCHMYLE by ROBERT BURNS THE PASSING OF WOODROW WILSON, PROPHET OF PEACE by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS FIFTY YEARS SPENT by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT |