 For we'd been companions dear, And could not part without a tear, And Cartha had a mournful voice, She did not as of old rejoice ; And vale and mountain, flower and tree, Were looking sadly upon me ; For oh ! there is a nameless tie, A strange mysterious...  The Emigrant: And Other Poems - Page 17by Alexander McLachlan - 1861 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...resonant passages in the poem is the Old Pioneer's summary of his abiding affection for Scotland: For ohi there is a nameless tie, A strange mysterious sympathy...unseen power, Which looks from every tree and flower. (1:59-64) This is not merely a rehearsal of Scott's analysis of patriotic love as a "secret power"... | |
 | Susan Glickman - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 234 pages
...wilderness as nature-worshippers. McLachlan's emigrants speak for most when they declare that . . . there is a nameless tie, A strange mysterious sympathy,...unseen power, Which looks from every tree and flower (1.4.17-22) So widespread was this response that Mary Lu MacDonald's survey of pre-Confederation periodical... | |
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