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Sample ## Take a look inside BY THE SAME AUTHOR ROMANCES John Burnet of Barns A Lost Lady of Old Years The Half-Hearted Prester John Salute to Adventurers The Thirty-Nine Steps The Power-House Greenmantle SHORT STORIES Grey Weather The Watcher by the Threshold The Moon Endureth ESSAYS Scholar-Gipsies Some Eighteenth-Century Byways POLITICS AND TRAVEL The African Colony A Lodge in the Wilderness The Taxation of Foreign Income HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY A History of Brasenose College Sir Walter Raleigh The Marquis of Montrose Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall A History of the War (in course of publication). Since there are many variants of our northern speech, it seems fitting to say that the Scots pieces in this little collection are written in the vernacular which is spoken in the hill country of the Lowlands, from the Cheviots to Galloway. Scots has never been to me a book-tongue; I could always speak it more easily than I could write it; and I dare to hope that the faults of my verses, great as they are, are not those of an antiquarian exercise. J. B. CONTENTS BOOK I.—SCOTS PAGE Midian’s Evil Day—Dear Reverend Sir,—I tak my pen 13 The Herd of Farawa—Losh, man! Did ever mortal see 21 The Eternal Feminine—When I was a freckled bit bairn 30 The South Countrie—I never likit the Kingdom o’ Fife— 32 The Shorter Catechism—When I was young and herdit sheep 34 THEOCRITUS IN SCOTS The Kirn—’Twas last back-end 36 The Fishers—’Tis puirtith sooples 44 INTER ARMA Sweet Argos—When the Almichty took His hand 48 On Leave—I had auchteen months o’ the war 55 The Kirk Bell—When oor lads gaed ower the tap 59 Home Thoughts from Abroad—Aifter the war, says the papers 62 Fragment of an Ode—Ye’ll a’ hae heard tell 65 The Great Ones—Ae morn aside the road frae Bray 67 Fisher… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fpoems-scots-and-english) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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