New Collected Rhymes - Andrew Lang

over the water that divides us from the voices and faces of our desires and dreams.

Of the ballads, The Young Ruthven and The Queen of Spain were written in competition with the street minstrels of the close of the sixteenth century. The legend on which The Young Ruthven is based is well known; The Queen of Spain is the story of the Florencia, a ship of the Spanish Armada, wrecked in Tobermory Bay, as it was told to me by a mariner in the Sound of Mull. In Keith of Craigentolly the family and territorial names of the hero or villain are purposely altered, so as to avoid injuring susceptibilities and arousing unavailing regrets.

DEDICATORY
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In Augustinum Dobson	[3]
LOYAL LYRICS
How the Maid Marched fromBlois	[7]
Lone Places of the Deer	[9]
An Old Song	[10]
Jacobite “Auld Lang Syne”	[12]
The Prince’s Birthday	[14]
The Tenth of June, 1715	[15]
White Rose Day	[17]
Red and White Roses	[18]
The Bonnie Banks o’ LochLomond	[19]
Kenmure	[21]
Culloden	[23]
The Last of the Leal	[25]
Jeanne d’Arc	[27]
CRICKET RHYMES
To Helen	[31]
Ballade of Dead Cricketers	[32]
Brahma	[34]
CRITICALOF LIFE, ART, AND LITERATURE
Gainsborough Ghosts	[37]
A Remonstrance with theFair	[39]
Rhyme of Rhymes	[42]
Rhyme of Oxford CockneyRhymes	[44]
Rococo	[47]
The New Orpheus to hisEurydice	[47]
The Food of Fiction	[59]
“A Highly Valuable Chain ofThoughts”	[51]
Matrimony	[53]
Piscatori Piscator	[55]
The Contented Angler	[56]
Off my Game	[58]
The Property of a Gentleman who hasGiven up Collecting	[60]
The Ballade of the SubconsciousSelf	[62]
Ballade of the Optimist	[64]
Zimbabwe	[66]
Love’s Cryptogram	[68]
Tusitala	[70]
Disdainful Diaphenia	[72]
Tall Salmacis	[73]
JUBILEE POEMS
What Francesco said of theJubilee	[72]
The Poet and the Jubilee	[79]
On any Beach	[81]
Ode of Jubilee	[82]
Jubilee before Revolution	[84]
FOLKSONGS
French Peasant Songs	[89]
BALLADS
The Young Ruthven	[93]
The Queen o’ Spain and the BauldMcLean	[97]
Keith of Craigentolly	[101]

DEDICATORY

In Augustinum Dobson.

Jam Rude Donatum.

Dear Poet, now turned out to grass
(Like him who reigned in Babylon),
Forget the seasons overlaid
By business and the Board of Trade:
And sing of old-world lad and lass
As in the summers that are gone.

Back to the golden prime of Anne!
When you ambassador had been,
And brought o’er sea the King again,
Beatrix Esmond in his train,
Ah, happy bard to hold her fan,
And happy land with such a Queen!

We live too early, or too late,
You should have shared the pint of Pope,
And taught, well pleased, the shining shell
To murmur of the fair Lepel,
And changed the stars of St. John’s fate
To some more happy horoscope.

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DEDICATORY

In Augustinum Dobson.