‘Tu Manes ne laede meos: sed parce solutis
Crinibus, et teneris, Delia, parce genis.’
The same belief is recorded in Germany, Scandinavia, India, Persia, and ancient Greece, as well as in England and Scotland (see Sir Walter Scott, Red-gauntlet, letter xi., note 2).
There is a version of this ballad beginning—
‘Proud Boreas makes a hideous noise.’
It is almost needless to add that this is from Buchan’s manuscripts.
THE UNQUIET GRAVE
1.
‘The wind doth blow today, my love,
And a few small drops of rain;