The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.

There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe,
In linns both wide and steep.

In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.

His successful angler landing the linn-lier [fish that inhabits a pool of water].

What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?

"For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn,
"And it's up to the meadow ridge—"

Linn

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