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Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus - Violet Jacob
Violet Jacob
Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus
EAN 8596547377658
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
TAM I' THE KIRK
THE HOWE O' THE MEARNS
THE LANG ROAD
THE BEADLE O' DRUMLEE
THE WATER-HEN
THE HEID HORSEMAN
JEEMSIE MILLER
THE GEAN-TREES
THE TOD
THE BLIND SHEPHERD
THE DOO'UCOT UP THE BRAES
LOGIE KIRK
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE DITCH
THE LOST LICHT
THE LAD I' THE MUNE
THE GOWK
THE JACOBITE LASS
MAGGIE
THE WHUSTLIN' LAD
HOGMANAY
CRAIGO WOODS
THE WILD GEESE
GLOSSARY
MORE SONGS. OF ANGUS. AND OTHERS
PREFACE
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There are few poets to-day who write in the Scots vernacular, and the modesty of the supply is perhaps determined by the slenderness of the demand, for pure Scots is a tongue which in the changes of the age is not widely understood, even in Scotland. The various accents remain, but the old words tend to be forgotten, and we may be in sight of the time when that noble speech shall be degraded to a northern dialect of English. The love of all vanishing things burns most strongly in those to whom they are a memory rather than a presence, and it is not unnatural that the best Scots poetry of our day should have been written by exiles. Stevenson, wearying for his hills of home,
found a romance in the wet Edinburgh streets, which might have passed unnoticed had he been condemned to live in the grim reality. And we have Mr. Charles Murray, who in the South African veld writes Scots, not as an exercise, but as a living speech, and recaptures old moods and scenes with a freshness which is hardly possible for those who with their own eyes have watched the fading of the outlines. It is the rarest thing, this use of Scots as a living
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