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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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[Illustration: [Handwritten: Ever yours truly,

Chas. Mackay.]]

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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:
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,                                         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 ladd