The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III | Page 9

slightest trace in him, or indeed in any of the early bards. Welcker
(Sappho von einem herrschenden Vorurtheile befreit) has successfully
defended the character of Sappho from the accusations of a later age,
and it would be easy to do the same both for Alcæus and Anacreon.
[2] Schiller's Poems and Ballads, by Bulwer, vol. ii., p. 122. The whole
song should be read. Bulwer calls it a "Hymn to Joy," Schiller himself,
simply, "To Joy."
[3] There is a curious instance of this in the song, "The Blithesome
Bridal."--Chambers's "Scottish Songs," p. 71.
[4] Sibbald's "Chronicle of Scottish Poetry," vol. iii., p. 193.
[5] Campbell has translated this fragment, but he has not retained the
simplicity of the original.
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ALLAN CUNNINGHAM,
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She 's gane to dwall in heaven,
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The lovely lass of Preston mill,
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Gane were but the winter cauld,
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It's hame, and it's hame,
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The lovely lass of Inverness,
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A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
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The bonnie bark,
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Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie,
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Young Eliza,
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Lovely woman,
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EBENEZER PICKEN,
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Peggie wi' the glancin' e'e,
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Woo me again,