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stranger who had come to visit it ‘in Erin’s yellow vesture clad,’ and in’
bearing ‘ every inch a king.‘
The second time was when, in 1842, we saw the young Prince Albert and
Victoria riding up from Holyrood to the Castle. Then too Nature was propitious,
and her smile mingled with those of tens of thousands of the loyal
and leal-hearted of the land, at the sight of the princely pair in ‘the day of
their espousals, and in the day of the gladness of their heart’ Nor did any
prophetic whisper then darken or disturb the general and enthusiastic joy.
Surely it was one of the proudest and most magnificent days that our Scottish
metropolis ever saw-and she looked that morning as if she herself felt that
it was.
OLD INPIRUARY TOWER
