THE FAILE IN MONTGOMERY CASTLE GROUNDS.

Near the tree where Burns carved Mary Campbell's name and his own on the day of their final parting

"That sacred hour can I forget?
Can I forget the hallow'd grove

Where, by the winding Ayr, we met,
To live one day of parting love?"

-"To Mary in Heaven."

About a hundred yards below the part shown in this picture the Faile enters the Ayr. The final parting was made at the narrow part of the river opposite the tree, still called "Mary's Thorn." Burns standing on one side of the river and Mary on the other, holding the open Bible, and promising to marry.

"Wi' many a Vow and locked embrace
Our parting was fu' tender."

-"Highland Mary."

HIGHLAND MARY'S MONUMENT, GREENOCK.

The Kirkyard was sold near the close of 1919 to a shipbuilding company. but the British Parliament passed an act preserving "Highland Mary's" grave from desecration.

In the same place as it was, when Burns worked the farm, six miles from Dumfries. Burns lay out in this yard all night on the third anniversary of the death of Highland Mary, and wrote the beautiful poem "To Mary in

Faileford is a small village not far from the grounds of Montgomery Castle.
The Faile enters the Ayr at Faileford. The final parting between Burns and
Highland Mary took place at Faileford.

"Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore,
O'erhung with wild-woods, thickening green."

"To Mary in Heaven."