Crossword-Solution: LAIRING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

List'ning the doors and winnocks rattle, [windows] I thought me on the ourie cattle, [shivering] Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle [onset] O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle [-sinking, scramble] Beneath a scar.

Listening, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle Beneath a scar.

Listening at home while the storm made the doors and windows rattle, he bethought him on the cattle and sheep and birds outside-- 'I thought me on the ourie cattle Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle Beneath a scaur.' Nor is there in his love of nature any transcendental strain; no mawkish sentimentality, and consequently in its expression no bathos.

What harlequin mood of nature qualified Him so with happiness? and limbed him with Such young activity as winds, that ride The ripples, have, that dance on every side? As sunbeams know, that urge the sap and pith Through hearts of trees? yet made him to delight, Gnome-like, in darkness,--like a moonlight myth,-- Lairing in labyrinths of the under night.

How touching is it, for instance, that, amidst the gloom of personal misery, brooding over the wintry desolation without him and within him, he thinks of the "ourie cattle" and "silly sheep," and their sufferings in the pitiless storm! "I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war; Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle, Beneath a scaur.