Delgatie, Marie's Bower Location: Delgatie Castle OS Map Reference: Date: uncertain Description: A text work painted on the ceiling beams in a room reputed to have provided lodging for Mary Queen of Scots, this painting confuses me as the text is the same as 2 stanzas in the poem "Kilmeny" by James Hogg 1770–1835 (it is a part of her prophetic vision during her stay among the fairies) . I admit my ignorance, I do not know if the ceiling painting is in fact a modern work or if this part of the poem was copied by Hogg from an earlier source. Related Information: She saw a lady sit on a throne, The fairest that ever the sun shone on! A lion lick'd her hand of milk, And she held him in a leish of silk; And a leifu' maiden stood at her knee, With a silver wand and melting e'e; Her sovereign shield till love stole in, And poison'd all the fount within. Then a gruff untoward bedesman came, And hundit the lion on his dame; And the guardian maid wi' the dauntless e'e, She dropp'd a tear, and left her knee; And she saw till the queen frae the lion fled, Till the bonniest flower of the world lay dead; Era: unknown Settlement: Turriff Town: County: Aberdeenshire Information Source: Related Artefacts: The 1592 Ceiling, Delgatie The 1597 Ceiling, Delgatie Delgatie Castle Unicorn, Delgatie The 1800 Laundry, Delgatie Categories: Ceiling Painting Iconography: Creator: External Links: