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The Poetical Works of Walter C. Smith

... Revised by the Author: Coll. ed.
Smith, Walter C. (1824-1908)

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THE BISHOP'S WALK AND THE BISHOP'S TIMES
  
DEDICATION TO JOHN HUNTER, Esq.
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THE BISHOP'S WALK
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THE BISHOP'S TIMES
  
FROM THE BASS
  
ROTHES
  
PEDEN THE PROPHET
  
OLD GREYFRIARS
  
THE CONFESSION OF ANNAPLE GOWDIE, WITCH
  
THE COMPLAINT OF DEACON BIRSE,
  
MARION BROWN'S LAMENT
  
M'KAIL'S FAREWELL
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OLRIG GRANGE
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BOOK FIRST
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR THOROLD
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BOOK SECOND
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR HESTER
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BOOK THIRD
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR MATER DOMINA
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BOOK FOURTH
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR PATER
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BOOK FIFTH
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR ROSE
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BOOK SIXTH
  
EDITORIAL
  
LOQUITUR THOROLD
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BORLAND HALL
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BOOK FIRST
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COLLEGE LIFE
  
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PARTY OF STUDENTS IN THE UPPER ROOM
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AUSTEN LYELL
  
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Song— The Hours
  
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BOOK SECOND
  
BORLAND GLEN
  
BORLAND'S WIDOW
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BOOK THIRD
  
THE FUNERAL
  
THE WILL
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BOOK FOURTH
  
THE HOWFF
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PAUL GAUNT
  
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Milly Gaunt's Song
  
Milly sings again
  
Song—
  
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Milly (alone) sings—
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BOOK FIFTH
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BOOK SIXTH
  
MILLY GAUNT
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HILDA AMONG THE BROKEN GODS
  
PROLOGUE
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BOOK FIRST CLAUD MAXWELL, POET
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BOOK SECOND HILDA, SAINT-WIFE
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BOOK THIRD WINIFRED URQUHART, MATERIALIST
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BOOK FOURTH LUKE SPROTT, EVANGELIST
  
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Luke's Discourse
  
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BOOK FIFTH REV. ELPHINSTONE BELL, PRIEST
  
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THE LETTER
  
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EPILOGUE
  
L'ENVOI
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RABAN
  
RABAN
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PRELUDES
  
DREAMING
  
WORK AND SPIRIT
  
CONSTRAINT
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THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE
  
THE HOUSE
  
MURIEL
  
LOO
  
MYRA
  
LOVE
  
SPEECHLESS
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THE LICENTIATE
  
DILL'S LODGINGS
  
CONFIDENCE
  
SCATTERED
  
WAITING
  
A WISH
  
SELF-CONTEMPT
  
HOPE
  
THE BROOK AND THE RIVER
  
FAILURE
  
SUBMISSION
  
MORALISING
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CRYSTALLISED SERMONS
  
NOTE
  
SACRIFICE
  
THE STANDING STONES
  
THE ANCIENT CROSS
  
THE ABBEY
  
A PARABOLIC DISCOURSE
  
ELIJAH
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LITTERATEUR
  
NOTE
  
SECULAR
  
CONTENT
  
DISCONTENT
  
SUCCESS
  
A WALK
  
LOST
  
CHANGE
  
BAD TIMES
  
NOW AND THEN
  
HOW WE DID IT
  
STORM-BIRDS
  
RUMOUR
  
TRIUMPH
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ENDINGS
  
NOTE
  
RETROSPECT
  
OMEN
  
THE PUBLIC MEETING
  
MISGIVING
  
REMORSE
  
AFTER DINNER
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STRAY LEAVES
  
NOTE
  
MISS PENELOPE LEITH
  
WAGSTAFF
  
PEPPE
  
JOHN MEFF, M.A.
  
LATTO
  
MOTHER-IN-LAW
  
FATHER-IN-LAW
  
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
  
A MINISTER'S DILEMMA
  
THE RIVAL BROTHERS
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NORTH COUNTRY FOLK
  
WEE CURLY POW
  
DR. LINKLETTER'S SCHOLAR
  
DICK DALGLEISH
  
LOST AND WON
  
THE MAD EARL
  
PROVOST CHIVAS
  
MORGANA
  
MRS. COVENTRY
  
MOTHER AND STEPMOTHER
  
BAILIE BUTTERS AND YOUNG DINWOODIE
  
DEACON DORAT'S STORY
  
THE POETASTER
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PARISH PASTORS
  
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Dr. Boyack
  
Dean Duffus
  
The Reverend Richard Rule
  
AMORY HILL
  
MISS BELLA JAPP
  
THE VILLAGE PHILOSOPHER
  
ALTNACRAIG
  
COBAIRDY
  
DONALD TOSHACH
  
IONA
  
THE CRY OF THE MAIDEN SHAREHOLDERS
  
IN MEMORIAM—
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KILDROSTAN
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ACT I.—
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SCENE I
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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ACT II.—
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT III.—
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
  
Kenneth's Song.
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SCENE III.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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THOUGHTS AND FANCIES FOR SUNDAY EVENINGS
  
[Why should I always pray]
  
[One thing I of the Lord desire—]
  
[Lilies take no care]
  
[Once they sought the Cross of shame]
  
[It is the fashion now for wits to be]
  
[Hark! hark! the joyous lark]
  
[He led me out and in]
  
[Oh to be like my Lord! Yet must I be]
  
[Be still, and know He doeth all things well]
  
[Abba, Father! O to think that I]
  
[O barren fruitless years]
  
[Oft, Lord, I weary in Thy work]
  
[Lo! this our marching order still]
  
[The Master comes, and calls for thee]
  
[There where the hosts of darkness lie]
  
[Light the lamp that burneth cheery]
  
[Looking unto Jesus]
  
[Ah! you bring money in your hand]
  
[Learn, O my soul, to use]
  
[One writ a plea for Faith, and put]
  
[Sometimes my heart with hope is filled]
  
[Alone, to face the Powers of darkness here]
  
[Bright and glad the time has been]
  
[Were there no oxen feeding in the stall]
  
[Jesus, in the deep, dark night]
  
[Whatsoe'er I be or do]
  
[Not to be served, O Lord, but to serve man]
  
[Laying the foundations]
  
[I have heard a cry of wailing]
  
[What shall I do for all the grace and truth]
  
[All the springs of God are found]
  
[If I had got the cup]
  
[He had not gone to ply the net]
  
[What am I that there should be]
  
[Gird your loins about with truth]
  
[When I forget Thee, like a sun-parched land]
  
[Bind on me, Lord, the new law given]
  
[O heart, my heart, that burdened art and breaking]
  
[Lord, there is nothing I can give]
  
[He spake without one shade of guilt or blame]
  
[Oh we boast us of our law]
  
[Ah me! the secret sin]
  
[Not one regretful look behind]
  
[Higher still, and higher!]
  
[Dear to me the Church of Christ]
  
[Hast thou wandered far, my child?]
  
[Thy Kingdom come—the reign of truth and right]
  
[Waiting for the day to dawn]
  
[Bid me not look in heaven for only rest]
  
[Oh, are they near to us or far away?]
  
[O'er land and sea love follows with fond prayers]
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A HERETIC AND OTHER POEMS
  
A HERETIC
  
SABBATH EVENING LONG AGO
  
CREEDS
  
THE DISCOVERY OF GOD
  
THE INVENTION OF GOD
  
THE VISION OF GOD
  
THE BURDEN OF GOD
  
WHAT PILATE THOUGHT OF IT
  
A PULPITEER
  
RUGGLES, THE SALVATIONIST
  
HERR PROFESSOR KUPFER-NICKEL
  
A DREAM
  
MORAL-SUBLIME
  
MIRREN
  
A DARK EVENING
  
FOUND AND LOST
  
THE LETTRE DE CACHET
  
A CALM
  
SPRING MORNING
  
ORWELL
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BALLADS FROM SCOTTISH HISTORY
  
INTRODUCTORY
  
“IT CAME WITH A LASS, AND WILL GANG WITH A LASS”
  
GEORGE WISHART
  
THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN
  
THE GORDONS AND CORRICHIE
  
LADY SEATON'S COMPLAINT
  
IN EDINBURGH CASTLE
  
“THERE'S A HOLE IN THIS PARLIAMENT”
  
EUPHANE SKENE
  
YOUNG ERSKINE OF DUN
  
THE GERMAN SCOTS
  
FATHER INNES, S.J.
  
THE MACGREGORS
  
THE LITTLE PILGRIMS
  
JOHN NAPIER OF MERCHISTON
  
LIVINGSTONE'S WOOING
  
WARRISTON AND THE SIGNING OF THE COVENANT
  
GASK AND MONTROSE
  
THE SECTARY
  
BURLEIGH ON MAGUS MOOR
  
ERICSTANE BRAE
  
LADY DIANA
  
GRIZEL BAILLIE
  
THE ROVER OF SALLEE
  
THE CAMERONIAN REGIMENT
  
THE RABBLING OF THE CURATES
  
THE SIEGE OF THE BASS
  
DAMIEN AND MARION CUNNINGHAM
  
LADY GRANGE
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FUGITIVE PIECES
  
THE ELDER'S DAUGHTER
  
THE MYSTERY
  
THE REVELATION

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[Waiting for the day to dawn]

“Willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”— 2 Cor. v. 8.

Waiting for the day to dawn,
Peering through the darkness far,
Here and there a cloud withdrawn,
Here and there a star.
Dark and silent is the hour,
Not a whispering wind is heard,
Not an insect in a flower,
Not a twittering bird.
Long the night has been and slow,
Spite of good, remembered words,
And my heart is faint and low
With the loosening cords.
Who is with me? Only Thou,
Thou, my never-failing Friend:
Lay Thy hand upon my brow,
Hold it to the end.
Lo! is that a gleam of morn
Touching yonder trailing cloud,
White and ghostly and forlorn,
Pallid as a shroud?
Yet within that cloud there lie
All the glories of the day—
Light, and life, and song; and I
Long for them and pray.
So I wait with failing strength,
Give me, Lord, the grace I need,
That I yet may die at length
Into life indeed.
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