The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 4. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

by Unknown

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CONTENTS.

• [HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL,] [1]
• • [The wild glen sae green,] [49]
  • [Scotia's thistle,] [50]
  • [The land of gallant hearts,] [51]
  • [The yellow locks o' Charlie,] [52]
  • [We 'll meet yet again,] [53]
  • [Our ain native land,] [54]
  • [The Grecian war-song,] [56]
  • [Flora's lament,] [57]
  • [When the glen all is still,] [58]
  • [Scotland yet,] [58]
  • [The minstrel's grave,] [60]
  • [My own land and loved one,] [61]
  • [The bower of the wild,] [62]
  • [The crook and plaid,] [63]
  • [The minstrel's bower,] [65]
  • [When the star of the morning,] [66]
  • [Though all fair was that bosom,] [67]
  • [Would that I were where wild-woods wave,] [68]
  • [O tell me what sound,] [69]
  • [Our Mary,] [70]
• [MRS MARGARET M. INGLIS,] [73]
• • [Sweet bard of Ettrick's Glen,] [75]
  • [Young Jamie, ] [76]
  • [Charlie's bonnet's down, laddie,] [77]
  • [Heard ye the bagpipe?] [78]
  • [Bruce's address,] [79]
  • [Removed from vain fashion,] [80]
  • [When shall we meet again?] [81]
• [JAMES KING,] [83]
• • [The lake is at rest,] [85]
  • [Life 's like the dew,] [86]
• [ISOBEL PAGAN,] [88]
• • [Ca' the yowes to the knowes,] [89]
• [JOHN MITCHELL,] [90]
• • [Beauty,] [91]
  • [To the evening star,] [92]
  • [O waft me to the fairy clime,] [92]
  • [The love-sick maid,] [93]
• [ALEXANDER JAMIESON,] [95]
• • [The maid who wove,] [96]
  • [A sigh and a smile,] [97]
• [JOHN GOLDIE,] [98]
• • [And can thy bosom,] [100]
  • [Sweet 's the dew,] [101]
• [ROBERT POLLOK,] [103]
• • [The African maid,] [105]
• [J. C. DENOVAN,] [106]
• • [Oh! Dermot, dear loved one,] [107]
• [JOHN IMLAH,] [108]
• • [Kathleen,] [109]
  • [Hielan' heather,] [110]
  • [Farewell to Scotland,] [111]
  • [The rose of Seaton Vale,] [112]
  • [Katherine and Donald,] [113]
  • [Guid nicht, and joy be wi' you a',] [114]
  • [The gathering,] [115]
  • [Mary,] [116]
  • [Oh! gin I were where Gadie rins,] [117]
• [JOHN TWEEDIE,] [120]
• • [Saw ye my Annie?] [121]
• [THOMAS ATKINSON,] [122]
• • [Mary Shearer,] [124]
• [WILLIAM GARDINER,] [126]
• • [Oh! Scotland's hills for me,] [127]
• [ROBERT HOGG,] [129]
• • [Queen of fairy's song,] [131]
  • [When autumn comes,] [132]
  • [Bonnie Peggie, O!] [133]
  • [A wish burst,] [133]
  • [I love the merry moonlight,] [135]
  • [Oh, what are the chains of love made of?] [136]
• [JOHN WRIGHT,] [137]
• • [An autumnal cloud,] [139]
  • [The maiden fair,] [140]
  • [The old blighted thorn,] [141]
  • [The wrecked mariner,] [141]
• [JOSEPH GRANT,] [143]
• • [The blackbird's hymn is sweet,] [145]
  • [Love's adieu,] [146]
• [DUGALD MOORE,] [147]
• • [Rise, my love,] [149]
  • [Julia,] [150]
  • [Lucy's grave,] [152]
  • [The forgotten brave,] [153]
  • [The first ship,] [154]
  • [Weep not,] [155]
  • [To the Clyde,] [156]
• [REV. T. G. TORRY ANDERSON,] [158]
• • [The Araby maid,] [160]
  • [The maiden's vow,] [160]
  • [I love the sea,] [162]
• [GEORGE ALLAN,] [163]
• • [Is your war-pipe asleep?] [166]
  • [I will think of thee yet,] [167]
  • [Lassie, dear lassie,] [168]
  • [When I look far down on the valley below me,] [169]
  • [I will wake my harp when the shades of even,] [170]
• [THOMAS BRYDSON,] [172]
• • [All lovely and bright,] [173]
• [CHARLES DOYNE SILLERY,] [174]
• • [She died in beauty,] [177]
  • [The Scottish blue bells,] [177]
• [ROBERT MILLER,] [179]
• • [Where are they?] [179]
  • [Lay of the hopeless,] [180]
• [ALEXANDER HUME,] [182]
• • [My wee, wee wife,] [187]
  • [O, poverty!] [187]
  • [Nanny,] [188]
  • [My Bessie,] [189]
  • [Menie Hay,] [190]
  • [I 've wander'd on the sunny hill,] [192]
  • [Oh! years hae come,] [193]
  • [My mountain hame,] [194]
• [THOMAS SMIBERT,] [195]
• • [The Scottish widow's lament,] [197]
  • [The hero of St. John D'Acre,] [199]
  • [Oh! bonnie are the howes,] [200]
  • [Oh! say na you maun gang awa,] [201]
• [JOHN BETHUNE,] [203]
• • [Withered flowers,] [207]
  • [A spring song,] [208]
• [ALLAN STEWART,] [211]
• • [The sea boy,] [212]
  • [Menie Lorn,] [213]
  • [The young soldier,] [214]
  • [The land I love,] [215]
• [ROBERT L. MALONE,] [216]
• • [The thistle of Scotland,] [217]
  • [Hame is aye hamely,] [218]
• [PETER STILL,] [220]
• • [Jeanie's lament,] [221]
  • [Ye needna be courtin' at me,] [222]
  • [The bucket for me,] [223]
• [ROBERT NICOLL,] [225]
• • [Ordé Braes,] [228]
  • [The Muir o' Gorse and Broom,] [229]
  • [The bonnie Hieland hills,] [230]
  • [The bonnie rowan bush,] [231]
  • [Bonnie Bessie Lee,] [233]
• [ARCHIBALD STIRLING IRVING,] [235]
• • [The wild rose blooms,] [236]
• [ALEXANDER A. RITCHIE,] [237]
• • [The Wells o' Wearie,] [239]
• [ALEXANDER LAING,] [241]
• • [Ae happy hour,] [243]
  • [Lass gin ye wad lo'e me,] [244]
  • [Lass of Logie,] [245]
  • [My ain wife,] [246]
  • [The maid o' Montrose,] [247]
  • [Jean of Aberdeen,] [249]
  • [The hopeless exile,] [250]
  • [Glen-na-H'Albyn,] [250]
• [ALEXANDER CARLILE,] [252]
• • [Wha 's at the window,] [253]
  • [My brothers are the stately trees,] [254]
  • [The Vale of Killean,] [255]
• [JOHN NEVAY,] [257]
• • [The emigrant's love-letter,] [259]
• [THOMAS LYLE,] [261]
• • [Kelvin Grove,] [264]
  • [The trysting hour,] [265]
  • [Harvest song,] [266]
• [JAMES HOME,] [267]
• • [Mary Steel,] [268]
  • [Oh, hast thou forgotten?] [269]
  • [The maid of my heart,] [270]
  • [Song of the emigrant,] [271]
  • [This lassie o' mine,] [272]
• [JAMES TELFER,] [273]
• • [Oh, will ye walk the wood wi' me?] [273]
  • [I maun gae over the sea,] [275]

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

• [EVAN MACLACHLAN,] [279]
• • [A melody of love,] [281]
  • [The mavis of the clan,] [282]
• [JOHN BROWN,] [286]
• • [The sisters of Dunolly,] [287]
• [CHARLES STEWART, D.D.,] [289]
• • [Luineag—a love carol,] [290]
• [ANGUS FLETCHER,] [292]
• • [The Clachan of Glendaruel,] [292]
  • [The lassie of the glen,] [294]
• [GLOSSARY,] [295]

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THE
MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL

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