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Title: The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI  The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

Author: Various

Editor: Charles Rogers

Release Date: August 3, 2007 [EBook #22229]

Language: English

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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.

M.DCCC.LVI.

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.

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INTRODUCTION,

CONTENTS.

OBSERVATIONS ON SCOTTISH SONG. BY HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL,

CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D., Love aweary of the world, The lover's second thoughts on world weariness, A candid wooing, Procrastinations, Remembrances of nature, Believe, if you can, Oh, the happy time departed, Come back! come back! Tears, Cheer, boys, cheer, Mourn for the mighty dead, A plain man's philosophy, The secrets of the hawthorn, A cry from the deep waters, The return home, The men of the North, The lover's dream of the wind,

ARCHIBALD CRAWFORD, Bonnie Mary Hay, Scotland, I have no home but thee,

GEORGE DONALD, The spring time o' life, The scarlet rose-bush,

HENRY GLASSFORD BELL, My life is one long thought of thee, Why is my spirit sad? Geordie Young, My fairy Ellen, A bachelor's complaint,

WILLIAM BENNET, Blest be the hour of night, The rose of beauty, I 'll think on thee, love, There 's music in a mother's voice, The brig of Allan,

GEORGE OUTRAM, Charge on a bond of annuity,

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40 41 42 44 45

48 49 50 51 52

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HENRY INGLIS, Weep away,

JAMES MANSON, Ocean, The hunter's daughter, An invitation, Cupid and the rose-bud, Robin Goodheart's carol,

JAMES HEDDERWICK, My bark at sea, Sorrow and song, The land for me, The emigrants, First grief, The linnet,

WILLIAM BROCKIE, Ye 'll never gang back to yer mither nae mair,

ALEXANDER M'LACHLAN, The lang winter e'en,

THOMAS YOUNG, Antoinette; or, The Falls,

ROBERT WILSON, Away, away, my gallant bark, Love,

EDWARD POLIN, A good old song,

ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, I wander'd alane, Katie Blair,

DAVID TAYLOR, My ain gudeman,

ROBERT CATHCART, Mary,

WILLIAM JAMIE, Auld Scotia's sangs,

JOHN CRAWFORD, My auld wifie Jean, The land o' the bonnet and plaid, Sing on, fairy Devon, Ann o' Cornylee,

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61 63 63 64 65

68 69 70 72 73 76

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My Mary dear, The waes o' eild,

JOHN STUART BLACKIE, Song of Ben Cruachan, The braes of Mar, My loves, Liking and loving,

WILLIAM STIRLING, M.P., Ruth, Shallum,

THOMAS C. LATTO, The kiss ahint the door, The widow's ae bit lassie, The yellow hair'd laddie, Tell me, dear,

WILLIAM CADENHEAD, Do you know what the birds are singing, An hour with an old love,

ALLAN GIBSON, The lane auld man, The wanderer's return,

THOMAS ELLIOTT, Up with the dawn, Clyde boat song, Dimples and a', Bubbles on the blast, A serenade, A song of little things, My ain mountain land, When I come hame at e'en,

WILLIAM LOGAN, Jeanie Gow,

JAMES LITTLE, Our native hills again, Here 's a health to Scotia's shore, The days when we were young, Lizzy Frew,

COLIN RAE BROWN, Charlie 's comin', The widow's daughter,

ROBERT LEIGHTON, My muckle meal-pock,

106 107

115 117 118 120

122 126

128 129 130 131

134 135

138 139

142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149

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154 155 156 158

160 161

163

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JAMES HENDERSON, The wanderer's deathbed, The song of Time, The Highland hills, My native land,

JAMES MACLARDY, The sunny days are come, my love, Oh, my love was fair,

ANDREW JAMES SYMINGTON, Day dream, Fair as a star of light, Nature musical,

ISABELLA CRAIG, Our Helen, Going out and coming in, My Mary an' me, A song of summer,

ROBERT DUTHIE, Song of the old rover, Boatman's song, Lisette,

ALEXANDER STEPHEN WILSON, Things must mend, The wee blink that shines in a tear, Flowers of my own loved clime,

JAMES MACFARLAN, Isabelle, Household gods, Poor companions,

WILLIAM B. C. RIDDELL, Lament of Wallace, Oh! what is in this flaunting town,

MARGARET CRAWFORD, My native land, The emigrant's farewell, The stream of life, Day-dreams of other years, Affection's faith,

GEORGE DONALD, JUN., Our ain green shaw, Eliza,

JOHN JEFFREY, War-cry of the Roman insurrectionists,

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172 173

177 179 180

182 184 185 186

187 189 190

193 194 195

197 198 199

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206 207 207 209 211

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PATRICK SCOTT, The exile,

JOHN BATHURST DICKSON, The American flag,

EVAN M'COLL, The hills of the heather,

JAMES D. BURNS, Rise, little star, Though long the wanderer may depart,

GEORGE HENDERSON, I canna leave my native land,

HORATIUS BONAR, D.D., The meeting-place, Trust not these seas again,

JOHN HALLIDAY, The auld kirk bell, The auld aik-tree,

JAMES DODDS, Trial and death of Robert Baillie of Jervieswoode,

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

DUNCAN MACFARLAN, The beauty of the shieling,

JOHN MUNRO, The Highland welcome,

JOHN MACDONALD, JUN., Mary, the fair of Glensmole,

EVAN M'COLL, The child of promise,

INDEX,

INTRODUCTION.

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As if pointing to a condition of primeval happiness, Poetry has been the first language of nations. The Lyric Muse has especially chosen the land of natural sublimity, of mountain and of flood; and such scenes she has only abandoned when the inhabitants have sacrificed their national liberties. Edward I., who massacred the Minstrels of Wales, might have spared the butchery, as their strains were likely to fall unheeded on the ears of their subjugated countrymen. The martial music of Ireland is a matter of traditi on; on the first step of the invader the genius of chivalric song and melody departed from Erin. Scotland retains her independence, and those strains which are known in northern Europe as the most inspiriting and delightful, are recognised as the native minstrelsy of Caledonia. The origin of Scottish song and melody is as difficult of settlement as is the era or the genuineness of Ossian. There probably were songs and music in Scotland in ages long prior to the period of written history. Preserved and transmitted through many generations of men, stern and defiant as the mountains amidst which it was produced, the Minstrelsy of the North has, in the course of centuries, continued steadily to increase alike in aspiration of sentiment and harmony of numbers.

The spirit of the national lyre seems to have been aroused during the war of [1] independence, and the ardour of the strain has not since diminished. The metrical chronicler, Wyntoun, has preserved a stanza, lamenting the calamitous death of Alexander III., an event which proved the commencement of the national struggle.

"Quhen Alysandyr oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle: Oure gold wes changyd into lede. Cryst, borne in-to virgynyté Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyté."

The antiquity of these lines has been questioned, and it must be admitted that the strain is somewhat too dolorous for the times. Stung as they were by the perfidious dealings of their own nobility, and the ruthless oppression of a neighbouring monarch, the Minstrels sought every opportunity of astirring the patriotic feelings of their countrymen, while they despised the efforts of the enemy, and anticipated in enraptured pæans their defeat. At the siege of Berwick in 1296, when Edward I. began his first expedition against Scotland, the Scottish Minstrels ridiculed the attempt of the English monarch to capture the place in some lines which have been preserved. The ballad of "Gude Wallace" has been ascribed to this age; and if scarcely bearing the impress of such antiquity, it may have had its prototype in another of similar strain. Many songs, according to the elder Scottish historians, were composed and sung among the common people both in celebration of Wallace and King Robert Bruce.

The battle of Bannockburn was an event peculiarly adapted for the strains of the native lyre. The following Bardic numbers commemorating the victory have been preserved by Fabyan, the English chronicler:—

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