Jamie Tamson's Helicon

Our Allotment, at Saughton Mains, sits near the Water of Leith ... and, as you can see from this snap taken earlier this morning, its running very high at the moment :-(

Believe it or not, there is a 'Poets Stone' (much further up river), which contains a short verse by Jamie Tamson, who was a contemporary of Robert Burns --- here it is:


Jamie Tamson's Helicon

My water's refreshing and perhaps may inspire
The enraptured mind with poetical ire
I'm as wholesome and free to all who here passes
As the fount from the side of the Grecian Parnassus.

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Jamie Tamson (~1700's)

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