James Logie Robertson (1846 – 1922) was a literary scholar, editor and author, who also wrote under the pen name Hugh Haliburton. He was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He began his teaching career as assistant master at Heriot’s Hospital and George Watson’s College. He joined the staff at Edinburgh Ladies’ College in 1876 and stayed there until 1913. His writings include English text-books, essays and poetry.
In the grey skies the sun is growing cold,
And all the beauty of the air is gone;
The fays have left their bowers; the flowers alone
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Thou sluggard body, that must sit on shore
While sleepless Fancy ranges space at will—
Now shooting boldly o'er the billowy hoar
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O give me speech! companionship I ask
With my own kind: my soul is sick of books,
And longs with passionate longing for the looks
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O bright-eyed Hope, that still look'st back on me,
And beckon'st with thy hand, seeming to say—
“Leave caring for these baubles of To-Day;
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