The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales - Softcover

Hogg, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535813725 ISBN 13: 9781535813723

Publisher: Gale and the British Library, 1807

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SIR DAVID GRAEME. / Any person who has read the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border with attention, must have observed what a singular degree of interest and feeling the simple ballad of " The Twa Corbies" impresses upon the mind, which is rather increased than diminished by the unfinished state in which the story is left. It appears as if the bard had found his powers of description inadequate to a detail of the circumstances attending the fatal catastrophe, without suffering the interest, already roused, to subside, and had artfully consigned it over to the fancy of every reader to paint it what way he chose; or else that he lamented the untimely fate of a knight, whose base treatment he durst not otherwise make known than in that short parabolical dialogue. That the original is not improved in the following ballad, will too manifestly appear upon perusal; I think it, however, but just to acknowledge, that the idea was suggested to me by reading " The Twa Corbies." SIR DAVID GRJEME. The dow flew east, the dow flew west, The dow flew far ayont the fell, An' sair at e'en she seem'd distrest, But what perplext her could not tell. But ay she cry'd, Cur-dow, cur-dow, An' ruffled a' her feathers fair; An' lookit sad, an' wadna bow To taste the sweetest, finest ware. The lady pined, an' some did blame, (She didna blame the bonoy dow) But sair she blamed Sir David Graeme, Wha now to her had broke his vow. He swore by moon and stars sae bright, And by their bed--the grass sae green, To meet her there on Lammas night, Whatever dangers lay between: To risk his fortune and his life, To bear her from her father's ha', To give her a' the lands o' Dryfe, An' wed wi' her for gude an' a'. The day arrived, the evening came, The lady looked wi' wistful ee ; But, O, alas! ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Gale and the British Library
• Publication date: 1807
• ISBN 10: 1535813725
• ISBN 13: 9781535813723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232