Metrical tales, and other poems; - Electric Scotland

VI.
CONTENTS.
A Rapid Rhyme of a Merry Time—
page.
Part First 101
Part Second 107
Miscellaneous Poems—
Prelude 114
Panegyric on the English Language ... ... 115
Dunottar Castle ... ... ... ... ... ... 116
The Passage of the Red Sea 119
Lines Spoken at a Banquet given to General Sir
George Brown ... ... ... ... ... 121
Lines Spoken bj- the Author at a Banquet given at
the Launch of a Vessel ... ... ... ... 122
Pluscarden ... ... ... ... ... ... 123
The Poet of the Pentland Firth 12.5
Address to the Caithness Volunteers 127
My Reasons for joining the National Education League 129
The Corny Toe 132
The Widow's Determination ... 136
Letter from an Emigrant's Child 137
The Hills where I was Born ... 138
The Dying Cottager's Request 140
My Social Creed ... ... ... ... ... 141
In Defence 143
The Pointsman 144
Young Briton's Reply to Old British Croakers ... 145
The Battle of Agincourt 148
The Summer Bonnet... ... ... ... ... 151
A New Year's Retrospect 153
Life at High Pressure ... ... 155
The Mystery
... 157
The Statesman's Dream ... 159
A Glorious Death
IfiO
Our College Excursion ... igg
The Grocer's Daughter
1Q5
Thoughts on the Alarming Decrease of the Male Sex 167
Lines sent with a Present to a Young Lady on her
Marriage Day
Igg