Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE MINSTREL, WITH SOME OTHER POEMS. [Illustration] THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. WITH SOME OTHER POEMS. By JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE, FOR WILLIAM CREECH, MANNERS AND MILLER, AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. 1805. TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES, OF PITSLIGO, BARONET, AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER, AND AS AN APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE MOST VALUED FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR, THIS EDITION OF THE POETICAL WORKS OF DR BEATTIE, _IS INSCRIBED_ BY THE PUBLISHERS. CONTENTS. Page. The Minstrel, Book I. 1 Book II. 35 Retirement 71 Elegy 76 Ode to Hope 81 Pygmaeo-gerano-machia: The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes 89 Epistle to the Hon. C. B. 101 The Hares: A Fable 105 Epitaph: being Part of an Inscription for a Monument, to be erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady 118 Ode on Lord H***'s Birth-Day 119 To the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, &c. 125 The Hermit 127 Ode to Peace 130 Triumph of Melancholy 139 PREFACE TO THE MINSTREL.