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Edinburgh and Country Croonings' by Samuel Mucklebackit 3i'p?'i^i!;l:iS|;n|5|tiy3^r ' oaMiiiaMBQi:iii;<'firiei!Es L ~^jrr. If W7\> BB^ 7 -,.4^:7 v4i n .'<?-in><::3/^CevL Stern. OU puncdin' rising ^rai^ jnd ^rancl : 4> EDINBURGH AND COUNTRY CROONINGS BEING Selections from the Shorter Poetic Writings OF JAMES LUMSDEN ("Samuel Mucklebackit ") Author of'Toorle: A Drama of Farm Life," ''Edinburgh Poems and Songs" ''Lays and Letters from Linton," etc. etc. WITH ILLUSTRATION'S HV A. W. SINCLAIR r Ik^A 17 <> 1fr:~\'*^ X'-fU-^.^ -St :r- RoU-^ Ca't. EDINBURGH WILLIAM MACDONALD & CO. LTD., LONDON ROAD 1905 PR PREFACE. Owing to increasing- years and frailties I have not felt in strong enough fettle for some time to undertake the writing of another entirely new work, and I stated this to the publishers. They, while regretting the fact, have generously suggested that, instead of an entirely new book, I might perhaps see my way to selecting and revising a volume from the whole of my shorter poetic musings —new and old, published and unpublished—from all of them, in short, still extant and within reach. I fell in with this flattering proposal all the more readily as I was painfully conscious that many of my earlier effusions in verse were produced in unfavourable circumstances and urgently demanded revision. The limited task which I thus undertook I have now completed, and I may be allowed to indulge the hope that in sending forth this volume it will give pleasure to many readers and friends alike in my native country, and in Scottish settlements beyond the seas. The Glossary which I have appended I trust will prove useful to many of those unacquainted with the more uncommon words in " braid Scots." J. L. Edinburgh, 1905. r > -- V V... , ILLUSTRATIONS. Edinburgh from King's Park . Frontispiece The TWA Capitals Facing page 13 The Auld Farmer „ 56 The Castle : Edinburgh „ 61 Burns in Edinburgh „ 88 "A Mad Coo" » 159 Traprain Law „ 216 Punch and Dawty „ 265 Auld Castled . Hailes » 303 Battle of Prestonpans » 337 — —" CONTENTS. Edinburgh Croonings. PAGE Address to Edinburgh, .... I The Twa Capitals : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4 " "Jock Eezil's Dream : An Edinburgh Fairy Fete, i8 Songs in "Jock Eezil's " Dream " Dunedin," a Fairy Song, . 24 "The Queen," a P^airy Song, 26 " The Auld Scots Greys," a Fairy Song, 29 The Fairy Poet Laureate's Song, . 31 A Local Fairy Poet's Song, 32 " ! Fairy Song : Titania, O 38 " Fairy Song : It's Coming Noo For A' That," 40 " The Fairy Piper's Song : The Peoples' Palace," 42 " The Fairy Peculiar's Song : Guest and Host," 47 Arrival in Edinburgh, 49 An Auld Farmer in Edinburgh, 56 " The Wolf Y-Cleped Poverty," . 57 The Lion Hill, .... 58 The Castle : Edinburgh, 61 At the Forth Bridge, 62 A Short Visit to Roslin and Hawthornden, 65 Allan Ramsay, Scottish Poet, 75 Robert Ferguson, Scottish Poet, . 78 Robert Burns : Written on the Anniversary of His Birth in My Early Days, 80 To a Young Writer (About Burns), S3 Burns in Edinburgh, 88 Burns at the Grave of Ferguson, . 90 Lord Monboddo and Burns L— Introduction, 92 II.— Meeting, 96 III. —Sequel, 103 Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, 105 Ballad : "The Wells o' Wearie" {A New Version), 108 Tyneside, East Lothian, .... 109 EDINBURGH CROONINGS. James Watt, Scottish Engineer, Inventor of the Modern Steam Engine, Our Little Postman, David Hume, Scottish Philosopher, Hume's Last Illness and Death, . Adam Smith, Scottish Economist, Lines Written On the Morning of the Issue of the First One Thousandth Number of a Newspaper " The Higher Love," Not in the Poet's Art, Song : Portobello in Summer, Ae Winter Nicht, . The Gordon Highlanders, . " A Mad Coo," Verses to An Old Edinburgh Friend, Now in Queensland • David Croal, . • Athie Graeme, A Penny Tin Whistle Player, " Visitor from the Grassmarket Song : Aberdour," by A Frank Anderson, An Unfortunate Ploughman, . Young Willie's Widow, .... " Song : Dunsappie," .... John Crawm, A Late Distinguished Edinburgh Coal Merchant and Amateur Horse Couper, John Crawm's Elegy, Miss Josephine Jarvie, An Edinburgh Boarding-School Young Lady, . Disillusionized, ... An Epistle to Will, An Auld Plooman Friend, Tammy Macraw, The Sleepy Schule t-addie o' Bruchton " Collars and Cuffs," A New Song, Bessie's Christening, .... • • • • "Our Maggie," . The Dual Flag, ..... " Willie," Song : Rare Auld Songs from "The Story of Jamie King, An Edinburgh Sailor,"— In One of the Author's Previous Volumes- I.—" Leaving Edinburgh," A City Arab's Song, . 197 11.—"Before the Mast," . 198 III.—" Botany Bay," an Ex-Convict's Song, 200 — 1 COUNTRY CROONINGS. IV.—" In Rome Do as the Romans Do," the Wanderer's Song, 20 V.—An " Ancient Mariner's " Song, 203 VI.—"A Cyclone at Sea," a Sailor's Yarn Song, 204 VII.— Song : "The Links o' Leith," 206 In the Dawn of the New Era, 208 Country Croonings. Two Sonnets I. —East Lothian, 213 .II. —Auld Lang Syne, 213 Address to Traprain Law, . 214 The Legend of Traprain Law, 217 " Song : The Ploughman," . 223 A Country Hiring—A Dramatic Rhyme, 224 The Wee Broun Squirrel—A Greenwood Rhyme, 230 John Knox, ...... 231 " The Knox Memorial," Song Written for, and Sung at, the Public Concert held in Aid of the Funds of the Institution. • . 232 Auld Hansel Monday, 234 Auld Hansel Monday Defunct, 241 " Song : Noo Willie's Awa," 244 An Old Farmer's Epistle to his Landlord, 245 To a Friend in America, 248 " Reciprocity," .... 251 By My Native Stream, 252 "Sam," 253 Punch and Dawty—Two Old Farm Horses, 257 The Guidwife's Fareweel to Hailes, 267 Cremation : An Epistle to a Retired Dominie, 268 Cremation : To the Rev. Dr. Whitelaw, . 270 Death of " Auld Chairlie "—A Favourite Farm Horse, The New and the Auld Ways to Wealth, . 275 Our Church Vacancy—To Thomas Pintail, Esq., 277 Leaving Linton, an Orphan Lassie's Fareweel, 279 Linton Linn, a Tinkler's Rant, 281 " Song : North Berwick Nell," 282 Lambing Time. ..... 283 — — viii. COUNTRY CROONINGS. PAGE 284 Alorham Dell—a Dream, . Ane Deevlish Prank of ye Wicked Elfin King, 286 " Hiring Friday," .... 288 A May Month Truant, Leechman's Pills— Important Testimonials, 298 Second Epistle to a Friend in America, . An Auld Farmer's Lament for a Wet Harvest, 301 Auld Castled Hailes, Young Jeannie's Fareweel, . 304 The Late Professor Blackie On Confessions of Faith, 305 A Sunday in May L—At Prestonkirk Church : Morning, 306 . 308 IL—At Home : Midnight, The Flittin' Day, .... 309 On Another Flittin' Day Morning, 3" A Boyish Freak, .... 312 The Fa' o' the Leaf—A Fragment, 312 Songs Written in My Juvenile Period— L—Mither Caledon, , 313 1 1. —William Wallace, 314 in.—Kyley Broun—The Deceiving Drover of Perth, .... 315 IV.—The Battle of Bannockburn, . 316 V.—A New Harvest Lilt, 317 VI.—What Can a Young Fellow Do' wi' an Auld ? Wife -A Parody, . 318 VII.— Little Lauchin' Jean, 319 VIIL—"Jamie the Joiter," . 320 " Far Awa" (Song Written by Request), . 321 Song : The Broken Bank, 322 Dora, . • 324 " Our Johnnie," .... 325 Back at the Auld Abbey Brig, 327 In Prestonkirk Churchyard, 329 Twa Hamely Ballads I.—The Battle of Dunbar, . 330 II.—The ]*>attle of Prestonpans, 33S Glossary, ..... 339 EDINBURGH CROONINGS, ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH. CTERN, Old Dunedin ! rising gray and grand, Stately and dauntless in thy maze of smoke ; Up-towering on thy heights firm thou dost stand, And steadfast as thine own enduring rock ! A city that the ages cannot mock ! The stronghold of the land—secure, supreme, The mother fit of Nature's sturdiest stock, Thy wondrous aspect in the noonday gleam, Is as an epic's rare —a god's embodied dream ! Majestic spreading— stretching low and high, And far away hung up on either hand. With turrets manifold ris'n to the sky, And towers and palaces built to command A world's renown, and glorify the land Thou rulest from this high eternal seat. Unequalled over earth —so fair, so grand. Mountain and valley rolling to thy feet. And island-studded sea, thy bound and border meet I Like to an eagle on a cloud-girt height. An eagle that with ruffled plumes dost ward Her nestlings from the envy, day and night. Of rieving cragsmen, wily, bold, and hard, Thou seemest eager all thy hills to guard, Longing to gather them beneath thy wing And clasp them to thy breast in fond regard, So distant thy gray pinions dost thou fling. As even the Pentlands high thou wouldst thee nearer bring ! P ! EDINBURGH CROONINGS. Dunedin ! truly art thou magnified, Enhanced, enchanted by this mystic site ! Uplifted to the clouds in princely pride By citadel and monumental height Thy Calton and thy Castle—mind and might- Rare Art and Nature, nurslings of thy clime. That make thee matchless ever, and bedight Thy regal form with wonder thro' all time. With grandeur and romance—majestic, rare, sublime ! * Along thy beautiful unrivalled way aflame I wend with all my mind and heart ; This is the Scottish Athens, people say. Though never Athens yet, save but the name Of outward semblance, could this glory claim, This splendour and this wealth—a blended scene Of Art and Nature, challenging the fame Of aught in the whole world that e'er hath been. Or is, or may arise, till Doomsday supervene ! Palaces and monuments at every step, And in near distance ridges, rocks, and hills, Glimpses of sea through many a northern gap,t Avenues and promenades the prospect fills. Gardens and parks—to surfeit ev'n the wills And prudish tastes of idle multitudes, Whom " learned leisure " or rank ennui kills In longed-for time, in many-varying moods Of discontented " ease " which all disease includes.
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