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:''This article is about a Scottish poet, for English psychologist with the same name, see Charles Spence.'' Charles Spence (1779-1869) was a Scottish poet, stonemason and footman. :''The Bard of Gowrie''; ''the Poet of the Carse''. Spence was born in the parish of Kinfauns, spent most of his life in Rait and died in Manchester. :Linn-ma-Gray I long to see :Thy heathy heights and broomy lea; :Whaur linnets lilt and leverets play :Around the roar of Linn-Ma-Gray. :Linn-ma-Gray when to the street :Crowds follow crowds, in crowds to meet, :I wend my solitary way, :An' climb the cliffs of Linn-ma-Gray. :Linn-ma-Gray, each mounting spring, :From age to age doth tribute bring, :And rushing onwards to the Tay, :Augment the stream of Linn-ma-Gray. :Linn-ma-Gray round Baron hill, (the heights of Baron Hill, ) :I've aften gane wi' richt gude will, (led my Jean with right good will. ) :An' sat and seen the dashing spray (sat, and seen the foamy spray ) :Lash the dark rocks of Linn-ma-Gray. (the dark rocks of Linne Magray. ) :Linn-ma-Gray, when in yon ha' :The merry wassailers gather a' :In vain their waeel trained bands essay :The minstrelsy of Linn-ma-Gray. Another favourite Spence poem was entitled: 'My love's window'. Image:TopiaryCloseUpFingask.jpg|View of topiary at Fingask, as known by Spence Image:JessyScott Kerr.jpg|Lady Threipland of Fingask Castle, for whose family Spence was both footman and mason ==References== * Robert Chambers, ''The Threiplands of Fingask'', 1880. * Rev. James M'Turk Strachan, BD, FRSA (Scot), ''From the Braes of the Carse, Charles Spence's Poems and Songs'', 1898. ::(Strachan was 48 years minister at Kilspindie & died in 1936). * Lawrence Melville, ''The Fair Land of Gowrie'', William Culross & Son, Coupar Angus, 1939 (reprinted 1975). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Spence (bard)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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