221
EVAN M'COLL, 222
The hills of the heather, 223
JAMES D. BURNS, 224
Rise, little star, 224
Though long the wanderer may depart, 225
GEORGE HENDERSON, 227
I canna leave my native land, 228
HORATIUS BONAR, D.D., 229
The meeting-place, 230
Trust not these seas again, 233
JOHN HALLIDAY, 234
The auld kirk bell, 234
The auld aik-tree, 236
JAMES DODDS, 238
Trial and death of Robert Baillie of Jervieswoode, 239
METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.
DUNCAN MACFARLAN, 249
The beauty of the shieling, 250
JOHN MUNRO, 251
The Highland welcome, 252
JOHN MACDONALD, JUN., 254
Mary, the fair of Glensmole, 254
EVAN M'COLL, 256
The child of promise, 256
INDEX, 257
INTRODUCTION.
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 tradition; on the first step of the invader the gen
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