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Ban and Arriere Ban--A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
Contents
Dedication?A Scot to Jeanne d'Arc?How they held the Bass for King James?Three portraits of Prince Charles?From Omar Khayyam?Aesop?Les Roses de Sadi?The Haunted Tower?Boat-song?Lost Love?The Promise of Helen?The Restoration of Romance?Central American Antiquities in South Kensington Museum?On Calais Sands?Ballade of Yule?Poscimur?On his Dead Sea-Mew?From Meleager?On the Garland Sent to Rhodocleia?A Galloway Garland?Celia's Eyes?Britannia?Gallia?The Fairy Minister?To Robert Louis Stevenson?For Mark Twain's Jubilee?Poems Written under the Influence of Wordsworth
Mist?Lines?Lines?Ode to Golf?Freshman's Term?A toast?Death in June?To Correspondents?Ballade of Difficult Rhymes?Ballant o'Ballantrae?Song by the Sub-Conscious Self?The Haunted Homes of England?The Disappointment?To the Gentle Reader?The Sonnet?The Tournay of the Heroes?Ballad of the Philanthropist?Neiges d'Antan
In Ercildoune?For a Rose's Sake?The Brigand's Grave?The New-Liveried Year?More Strong than Death?Silentia Lunae?His Lady's Tomb?The Poet's Apology?Notes
DEDICATION: TO ELEANOR CHARLOTTE SELLAR
'Ban and Arriere Ban!' a host?Broken, beaten, all unled,?They return as doth a ghost?From the dead.
Sad or glad my rallied rhymes,?Sought our dusty papers through,?For the sake of other times?Come to you.
Times and places new we know,?Faces fresh and seasons strange?But the friends of long ago?Do not change.
ERRATUM: Reader, a blot hath escaped the watchfulness of the setter forth: if thou wilt thou mayst amend it. The sonnet on the forty-fourth page, against all right Italianate laws, hath but thirteen lines withal: add another to thy liking, if thou art a Maker; or, if thou art none, even be content with what is set before thee. If it be scant measure, be sure it is choicely good.
A SCOT TO JEANNE D'ARC
Dark Lily without blame,?Not upon us the shame,?Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true,?They, by the Maiden's side,?Victorious fought and died,?One stood by thee that fiery torment through,?Till the White Dove from thy pure lips had passed,?And thou wert with thine own St. Catherine at the last.
Once only didst thou see?In artist's imagery,?Thine own face painted, and that precious thing?Was in an Archer's hand?From the leal Northern land.?Alas, what price would not thy people bring?To win that portrait of the ruinous?Gulf of devouring years that hide the Maid from us!
Born of a lowly line,?Noteless as once was thine,?One of that name I would were kin to me,?Who, in the Scottish Guard?Won this for his reward,?To fight for France, and memory of thee:?Not upon us, dark Lily without blame,?Not on the North may fall the shadow of that shame.
On France and England both?The shame of broken troth,?Of coward hate and treason black must be;?If England slew thee, France?Sent not one word, one lance,?One coin to rescue or to ransom thee.?And still thy Church unto the Maid denies?The halo and the palms, the Beatific prize.
But yet thy people calls?Within the rescued walls?Of Orleans; and makes its prayer to thee;?What though the Church have chidden?These orisons forbidden,?Yet art thou with this earth's immortal Three,?With him in Athens that of hemlock died,?And with thy Master dear whom the world crucified.
HOW THEY HELD THE BASS FOR KING JAMES--1691-1693
[Time of Narrating--1743]
Ye hae heard Whigs crack o' the Saints in the Bass, my faith, a gruesome tale;?How the Remnant paid at a tippeny rate, for a quart o' ha'penny ale!?But I'll tell ye anither tale o' the Bass, that'll hearten ye up to hear,?Sae I pledge ye to Middleton first in a glass, and a health to the Young Chevalier!
The Bass stands frae North Berwick Law a league or less to sea, About its feet the breakers beat, abune the sea-maws flee,?There's castle stark and dungeon dark, wherein the godly lay, That made their rant for the Covenant through