The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

by Unknown

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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]