<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brodie Castle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The following sonnet on Brodie Castle Nairnshire, Scotland, was written<br>by my venerable Uncle, Thomas McIntyre, of St. Catherines, and father<br>of John B. McIntyre, Ex-Grand Master of the Independant Order of Odd<br>-fellows, and now, and for many years, an Alderman of the city of<br>St. Catherines. It was written by him as an acrostic on the words Brodie<br>Castle. I have taken the liberty of transfusing it into common verse. The<br>lines prove the old gentlemen to be kind hearted and as having a great<br>affection for his native land. He has been in. St. Catherines for half a<br>century, engaged in the same business I have been employed in for<br>about one-third of a century, in Ingersoll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scotland has produced three great shepherds<br>Talford, the inventor of Suspension Bridges,<br>Ferguson, the Astronomer, and Hogg the<br>Ettrick shepherd, the great song writer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brodie Castle,ever dear to my heart,<br>For there I first played my humble part.<br>When only thirteen, I there had employ.<br>In the position of a shepherd boy ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I was born on that fine estate,<br>Famed for its trees, so lofty and great,<br>And its magnificent avenue grand,<br>Which hath been famed over the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, though I did leave to learn my trade,<br>And in Western world a home I have made, <br>Yet, whan I look back, my heart it still cheers, <br>Though it is now more than threescore years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since first I went there as a shepherd boy, <br>Thoughts of the time fill my heart yet with joy, <br>Though, that I ne'er shall see Castle more,<br>Fond memory reverts to the days of yore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415993" data-title="Brodie Castle de James McIntyre" data-description="The following sonnet on Brodie Castle Nairnshire, Scotland, was written by my venerable Uncle, Thomas McIntyre, of St. Catherines, and father of John B. McIntyre, Ex-Grand Master of the Independant Order of Odd -fellows, and now, and for many year..."></div> </div> </div>

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