Sir Gilbert Elliot

Her mother, born Eleanor Elliot , later Lady Auckland, was the daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot (who died in 1763, and was known as an amateur poet and song-writer) and sister of the first Earl of Minto

This poem postdates by a few years Jean Elliot 's version of The Flowers of the Forest; in its appearance in The Black Bird (and reappearance in The Lark and The Charmer) it...