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from the 1894 Longmans, Green and Co. edition.
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