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The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

Edited by Mrs. Lang

Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)

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I OXFORD AND ST. ANDREWS

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III LOYAL LYRICS AND DEEDS OF MEN

The Tenth of June, 1715

The Prince's Birthday

How they Held the Bass for King

The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond

Lone Places of the Deer

Red and White Roses

Three Portraits of Prince Charles

Jacobite ‘Auld Lang Syne’

The Last of the Leal

A Scot to Jeanne d'Arc

How the Maid marched from Blois

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VI HIS FRIENDS OLD AND YOUNG

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[A hope for the hopeless lips to frame]

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Verse written by A. L. in a copy of ‘XXII Ballades in Blue China’, 1880, given to C. J. L. by A. L.

A hope for the hopeless lips to frame,
'Tis, oh, for a hard-hit innings of Game!
A prayer unheard that the wild wind blows,
'Tis, oh, for an over of Ridley's slows!

W. H. Game scored 109 for Oxford v. Cambridge in 1876.

Captain Oxford Eleven in 1875 and won the match v. Cambridge by six runs by putting himself on to bowl lobs and taking two wickets at the end of the innings. 1875 is known to cricketers as Ridley's Year.