The Gentle Shepherd

The Gentle Shepherd

"The Gentle Shepherd" is a famous pastoral by Allan Ramsay first published in 1725.

The pastoral has some happy descriptive scenes and a pleasant delineation of manners.

References

*Nuttall

External links

* [http://www.scotstext.org/makars/allan_ramsay/default.asp Text of poem]


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