Scottish Quotations about Rivers

On Leven's banks, while free to rove,
And tune the rural pipe to love,
I envied not the happiest swain
That ever trod the Arcadian plain.
Pure stream! in whose transparent wave
My youthful limbs I wont to lave;
No torrents stain thy limpid source,
No rocks impede thy dimpling course,
That sweetly warbles o'er its bed,
With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.
- Tobias George Smollett, Ode to Leven Water

Sweet Teviot! on thy silvery tide
The glaring bale-fires blaze no more;
No longer steel-clad warriors ride
Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
- Sir Walter Scott

How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.
- Andrew Park, The Banks of Clyde

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The bursting tears my heart declare;
Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
Robert Burns - The Banks of Ayr

Roamin' in the gloamin',
By the bonny banks of Clyde.
Harry Lauder, (Hugh MacLennon) (1870 - 1950)
Scottish music-hall artist. Song

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