TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. There is only one Footnote in this book. It has been moved to the end of the Introduction. Contractions with ’s (is or was) and those with ’t (it) sometimes had a half-space, sometimes no space, in the original text. For consistency these contractions all have no space in this etext, for example, she’s (not she ’s); till’t (not till ’t). A small number of other spaced contractions have been closed up and made consistent, such as she ’ll, thou ’rt and thou ’lt. All other dialect spelling has been left unchanged to match the original printed text. No spelling corrections have been made. The ‘List of Poem Titles’ was created by the transcriber and is granted to the public domain. It has been placed at the end of the book, after the ‘Index of First Lines’. SONGS AND LYRICS OF ROBERT BURNS [Illustration: Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?] SONGS AND LYRICS OF ROBERT BURNS SELECTED AND EDITED BY WILLIAM MACDONALD, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. RUSSELL FLINT AND R. PURVES FLINT [Illustration: (colophon)] LONDON: PHILIP LEE WARNER 7 GRAFTON STREET, W. MDCCCCXI Contents [_Individual Poems may be referred to readily by means of the Index of First Lines, printed at the end of the volume._] PAGE INTRODUCTION ix SONGS AND LYRICS 1 LONGER POEMS 172 GLOSSARY 209 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 217 Illustrations YE BANKS AND BRAES _Frontispiece_ BLYTHE AND MERRY _Facing page_ 6 TO MARY IN HEAVEN ” ” 14 A WINTER NIGHT ” ” 24 TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY ” ” 44 ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH ” ” 70 OF A’ THE AIRTS ” ” 90 CA’ THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES ” ” 108 MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS ” ” 138 THE BRAES O’ BALLOCHMYLE ” ” 162 THE COTTER’S SATURDAY NIGHT ” ” 180 THE BRIGS OF AYR ” ” 190 Introduction