272

JAMES TELFER, 273
Oh, will ye walk the wood wi' me? 273
I maun gae over the sea, 275

METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

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EVAN MACLACHLAN, 279
A melody of love, 281
The mavis of the clan, 282

JOHN BROWN, 286
The sisters of Dunolly, 287

CHARLES STEWART, D.D., 289
Luineag--a love carol, 290

ANGUS FLETCHER, 292
The Clachan of Glendaruel, 292
The lassie of the glen, 294

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GLOSSARY, 295

THE

MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL.

HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL.

Henry Scott Riddell, one of the most powerful and pleasing of the living
national song-writers, was born on the 23d September 1798, at Sorbie, in
the Vale of Ewes--a valley remarkable for its pastoral beauty, lying in
the south-east of Dumfriesshire. His father was a shepherd, well
acquainted with the duties of his profession, and a man of strong though
uneducated mind. "My father, while I was yet a child," writes Mr
Riddell, in a MS. autobiography, "left Sorbie; but when I had become
able to traverse both _burn_ and _brae_, hill and glen, I frequently
returned to, and spent many weeks together in, the vale of my nativity.
We had gone, under the same employer, to what pastoral phraseology terms
'_an out-bye herding_,' in the wilds of Eskdalemuir, called
Langshawburn. Here we continued for a number of years, and had, in this
remote, but most friendly and hospitable district, many visitors,
ranging from Sir Pulteney Malcolm down to Jock Gray, whom Sir Walter
Scott, through one of his strange mistakes, called Davy Gellatly....
Among others who constituted a part of the company of these days, was
one whom I have good reason to remember--the Ettrick She