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The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd

Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg]
Hogg, James (1770-1835)

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THE QUEEN'S WAKE.
  
[Shepherd of Ettrick! as of yore]
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THE MOUNTAIN BARD.
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MADOR OF THE MOOR.
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THE PILGRIMS OF THE SUN.
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THE POETIC MIRROR.
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QUEEN HYNDE.
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THE FOREST MINSTREL.
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POETICAL TALES AND BALLADS.
  
Connel of Dee.
  
A Greek Pastoral.
  
Cradle Song of the Elves.
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The Russiadde:
  
Mora Campbell.
  
The Good Man of Alloa.
  
Elen of Reigh.
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The Powris of Moseke.
  
A Lay of the Martyrs.
  
The Origin of the Fairies.
  
The P and the Q;
  
The Spirit of the Glen.
  
The Field of Waterloo,
  
Allan of Dale.
  
Jock Johnstone the Tinkler.
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Ringan and May.
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The Haunted Glen.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
  
The First Sermon.
  
The Mermaid.
  
Cary O'Kean.
  
Bothwell Brigg.
  
The Three Men of Moriston.
  
The Liddel Bower;
  
The Carle of Invertime.
  
The Frazers in the Correi.
  
The Lady's Dream.
  
Up an' rin awa', Geordie.
  
I'll no wake wi' Annie.
  
Dennis Delany.
  
A Ballad about Love.
  
The Lord of Balloch.
  
The Miser's Warning.
  
Lytill Pynkie.
  
The Two Men of Colston;
  
Fragment.
  
The Admonition.
  
Red Clan-Ranald's Men
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POEMS DESCRIPTIVE AND SENTIMENTAL.
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SACRED MELODIES.
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MISCELLANEOUS SONGS.

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John of Brackadale.

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Air—“Nuair a thig an Samhra.”

Came ye o'er by Moravich?
Saw ye John of Brackadale?
At his nose a siller quaich,
At his knee a water pail.
Copper nose and haffets gray,
Bald head and bosom hale,
John has drunken usquebae,
Mair than a' Loch Brackadale.
Hey John! ho John!
Hey John of Brackadale!
Hey John! ho John!
Waes me gin ye should fail,
Auld John, bauld John,
Brave John of Brackadale!
But John will wear away,
And the weary usquebae
Will grow cheaper by a third
When they delve him in the yird.
Oh, the gay hearts at Portree
Will lament sair for thee!
And I mysel' raise sic a wail
A' the rocks of Skye shall peal!
Hey John! ho John! &c.
 

In a subsequent edition the concluding verse runs thus:—

Sic a carle, to wear away,
An' lye down quiet in the yird,
Just when the glorious usquebae
Is growing cheaper by a third—
It winna do—I'll no believe it,
For ne'er was carle sae blithe an' hale:
Then hey for routh o' barley bree,
An' brave John o' Brackadale.

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