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THE

MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL;

BY

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

VOL. VI.


PAISLEY
Birth Place of Tannahill, Alexander Wilson, John Wilson, &c.


EDINBURGH:
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE,
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN.]

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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.

MDCCCLVII.


EDINBURGH:
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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,                                         25
  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,                                                  52

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

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
  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,                                                      141
  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,                                                     165
  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
  Things must mend,                                                  193
  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

PATRICK SCOTT,                                                       218
  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


METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.


DUNCAN MACFARLAN,                                                    249
  The beauty of the shieling,                                        250

JOHN MUNRO,                                                          251
  The Highland welcome,                                              252

JOHN MACDONALD, JUN.,                                                254
  Mary, the fair of Glensmole,                                       254

EVAN M'COLL,                                                         256
  The child of promise,                                              