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The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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THE

MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL;

OR,

THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND OF THE PAST HALF CENTURY.

WITH

Memoirs of the Poets,

AND

SKETCHES AND SPECIMENS
IN ENGLISH VERSE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED
MODERN GAELIC BARDS.

BY

CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D.
F.S.A. SCOT.

IN SIX VOLUMES;

VOL. VI.

EDINBURGH:
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE,
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY.

M.DCCC.LVI.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,
PAUL'S WORK.

TO

CHARLES BAILLIE, ESQ.,

SHERIFF OF STIRLINGSHIRE,

CONVENER OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE FOR REARING

A NATIONAL MONUMENT

TO THE

ILLUSTRIOUS DEFENDER OF SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE,

THIS SIXTH VOLUME

OF

The Modern Scottish Minstrel

IS DEDICATED,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

BY

HIS VERY OBEDIENT FAITHFUL SERVANT,

CHARLES ROGERS.

CONTENTS.

  • INTRODUCTION, xi
  • OBSERVATIONS ON SCOTTISH SONG. BY HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL, xx
  • CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D., 1
    • Love aweary of the world, 8
    • The lover's second thoughts on world weariness, 9
    • A candid wooing, 11
    • Procrastinations, 12
    • Remembrances of nature, 13
    • Believe, if you can, 15
    • Oh, the happy time departed, 17
    • Come back! come back! 17
    • Tears, 18
    • Cheer, boys, cheer, 20
    • Mourn for the mighty dead, 21
    • A plain man's philosophy, 22
    • The secrets of the hawthorn, 24
    • A cry from the deep waters,
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  • The return home, 26
  • The men of the North, 28
  • The lover's dream of the wind, 29
    • ARCHIBALD CRAWFORD, 31
      • Bonnie Mary Hay, 33
      • Scotland, I have no home but thee, 33
    • GEORGE DONALD, 35
      • The spring time o' life, 36
      • The scarlet rose-bush, 37
    • HENRY GLASSFORD BELL, 39
      • My life is one long thought of thee, 40
      • Why is my spirit sad? 41
      • Geordie Young, 42
      • My fairy Ellen, 44
      • A bachelor's complaint, 45
    • WILLIAM BENNET, 47
      • Blest be the hour of night, 48
      • The rose of beauty, 49
      • I 'll think on thee, love, 50
      • There 's music in a mother's voice, 51
      • The brig of Allan,
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    • GEORGE OUTRAM, 54
      • Charge on a bond of annuity, 55
    • HENRY INGLIS, 59
      • Weep away, 59
    • JAMES MANSON, 61
      • Ocean, 61
      • The hunter's daughter, 63
      • An invitation, 63
      • Cupid and the rose-bud, 64
      • Robin Goodheart's carol, 65
    • JAMES HEDDERWICK, 67
      • My bark at sea, 68
      • Sorrow and song, 69
      • The land for me, 70
      • The emigrants, 72
      • First grief, 73
      • The linnet, 76
    • WILLIAM BROCKIE, 78
      • Ye 'll never gang back to yer mither nae mair, 78
    • ALEXANDER M'LACHLAN, 80
      • The lang winter e'en, 80
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    • THOMAS YOUNG, 81
      • Antoinette; or, The Falls, 81
    • ROBERT WILSON, 84
      • Away, away, my gallant bark, 84
      • Love, 85
    • EDWARD POLIN, 87
      • A good old song, 88
    • ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, 89
      • I wander'd alane, 89
      • Katie Blair, 91
    • DAVID TAYLOR, 92
      • My ain gudeman, 92
    • ROBERT CATHCART, 94
      • Mary, 94
    • WILLIAM JAMIE, 96
      • Auld Scotia's sangs, 96
    • JOHN CRAWFORD, 98
      • My auld wifie Jean, 102
      • The land o' the bonnet and plaid, 103
      • Sing on, fairy Devon, 104
      • Ann o' Cornylee, 105
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    class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">My Mary dear, 106
  • The waes o' eild, 107
    • JOHN STUART BLACKIE, 109
      • Song of Ben Cruachan, 115
      • The braes of Mar, 117
      • My loves, 118
      • Liking and loving, 120
    • WILLIAM STIRLING, M.P., 121
      • Ruth, 122
      • Shallum, 126
    • THOMAS C. LATTO, 127
      • The kiss ahint the door, 128
      • The widow's ae bit lassie, 129
      • The yellow hair'd laddie, 130
      • Tell me, dear, 131
    • WILLIAM CADENHEAD, 133
      • Do you know what the birds are singing, 134
      • An hour with an old love, 135
    • ALLAN GIBSON, 137
      • The lane auld man, 138
      • The wanderer's return, 139
    • THOMAS ELLIOTT,
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    • Up with the dawn, 142
    • Clyde boat song, 143
    • Dimples and a', 144
    • Bubbles on the blast, 145
    • A serenade, 146
    • A song of little things, 147
    • My ain mountain land, 148
    • When I come hame at e'en, 149
    • WILLIAM LOGAN, 151
      • Jeanie Gow, 151
    • JAMES LITTLE, 153
      • Our native hills again, 154
      • Here 's a health to Scotia's shore, 155
      • The days when we were young, 156
      • Lizzy Frew, 158
    • COLIN RAE BROWN, 159
      • Charlie 's comin', 160
      • The widow's daughter, 161
    • ROBERT LEIGHTON, 163
      • My muckle meal-pock, 163
    • JAMES HENDERSON,
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    • The wanderer's deathbed, 165
    • The song of Time, 167
    • The Highland hills, 168
    • My native land, 169
    • JAMES MACLARDY, 171
      • The sunny days are come, my love, 172
      • Oh, my love was fair, 173
    • ANDREW JAMES SYMINGTON, 176
      • Day dream, 177
      • Fair as a star of light, 179
      • Nature musical, 180
    • ISABELLA CRAIG, 182
      • Our Helen, 182
      • Going out and coming in, 184
      • My Mary an' me, 185
      • A song of summer, 186
    • ROBERT DUTHIE, 187
      • Song of the old rover, 187
      • Boatman's song, 189
      • Lisette, 190
    • ALEXANDER STEPHEN WILSON, 192
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  • The wee blink that shines in a tear, 194
  • Flowers of my own loved clime, 195
    • JAMES MACFARLAN, 196
      • Isabelle, 197
      • Household gods, 198
      • Poor companions, 199
    • WILLIAM B. C. RIDDELL, 201
      • Lament of Wallace, 202
      • Oh! what is in this flaunting town, 203
    • MARGARET CRAWFORD, 205
      • My native land, 206
      • The emigrant's farewell, 207
      • The stream of life, 207
      • Day-dreams of other years, 209
      • Affection's faith, 211
    • GEORGE DONALD, JUN., 212
      • Our ain green shaw, 212
      • Eliza, 213
    • JOHN JEFFREY, 215
      • War-cry of the Roman insurrectionists, 216
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    • The exile, 218
    • JOHN BATHURST DICKSON, 220
      • The American flag, 221
    • EVAN M'COLL, 222
      • The hills of the heather, 223
    • JAMES D. BURNS, 224
      • Rise, little star, 224
      • Though long the wanderer may depart, 225
    • GEORGE HENDERSON, 227
      • I canna leave my native land, 228
    • HORATIUS BONAR, D.D., 229
      • The meeting-place, 230
      • Trust not these seas again, 233
    • JOHN HALLIDAY, 234
      • The auld kirk bell, 234
      • The auld aik-tree, 236
    • JAMES DODDS, 238
      • Trial and death of Robert Baillie of Jervieswoode, 239