"The western waves of ebbing day Roll o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire." - From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott

A painting by Benjamin Leader, 1870s, of mountains at sunset, with a stream running between scrubby trees and heather-clad boulders.
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A painting by Benjamin Leader, 1870s, of mountains at sunset, with a stream running between scrubby trees and heather-clad boulders.

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The Ghost Monk · 10 · 10h ago
Now is the time to admit this isn't a painting of a Scottish scene at all - but a Welsh one, in Snowdonia. In my collection of landscapes pinched over the years from the net, I couldn't find a Scottish one that sufficiently fitted the words.