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"Sir, I should build me a fortification, if I / came to live here. " -- BOSWELL'S Johnson.
On the green little isle of Inchkenneth, / Who is it that walks by the shore, / So gay with his Highland blue bonnet, / So brave with his targe and claymore?
His form is the form of a giant, / But his face wears an aspect of pain; / Can this be the Laird of Inchkenneth? / Can this be Sir Allan McLean?
Ah, no! It is only the Rambler, / The Idler, who lives in Bolt Court, / And who says, were he Laird of Inchkenneth, / He would wall himself round with a fort.