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The title of the story comes from Psalm 126 – ‘As streams of water in the South/Our bondage, Lord, recall’ – and this becomes a refrain throughout the story. Written in 1896, it appeared in slightly different versions (rather unusually) in two of Buchan’s collections of short stories – Grey Weather (1899) and The Moon Endureth (1912). It is yet another exploration of the relationship between the country folk of the Upper Tweed Valley and the forces of nature.

As streams of water in the South,

Our bondage, Lord, recall.

Psalm CXXVI

Scots Metrical Version