Brewer's: Ednam

in Roxburghshire, near the Tweed, where Thomson, the author of The Seasons, was born.

The Tweed, pure parent-stream, Whose pastoral banks first heard my Doric reed.

Autumn (888-9).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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