KATHARINE—We see you as we see a face 41
XX. TO F. J. S.—I read, dear friend 42
XXI. REQUIEM—Under the wide and starry sky 43
XXII. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON—If I have faltered 44
XXIII. OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS—Out of the sun 45
XXIV. Not yet, my soul 50
XXV. It is not yours, O mother, to complain 53
XXVI. THE SICK CHILD—O mother, lay your hand on 56
my brow
XXVII. IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.—Yet, O stricken heart 58
XXVIII. TO MY FATHER—Peace and her huge invasion 60
XXIX. IN THE STATES—With half a heart 62
XXX. A PORTRAIT—I am a kind of farthing dip 63
XXXI. Sing clearlier, Muse 65
XXXII. A CAMP—The bed was made 66
XXXIII. THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS—We travelled 67
in the print of olden wars
XXXIV. SKERRYVORE—For love of lovely words 68
XXXV. SKERRYVORE: THE PARALLEL—Here all is sunny 69
XXXVI. My house, I say 70
XXXVII. My body which my dungeon is 71
XXXVIII. Say not of me that weakly I declined 73
BOOK II.—_In Scots_
I. THE MAKER TO POSTERITY—Far ’yont amang the 77
years to be
II. ILLE TERRARUM—Frae nirly, nippin’, Eas’lan’ 80
breeze
III. When aince Aprile has fairly come 85
IV. A MILE AN’ A BITTOCK 87
V. A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN—The clinkum-clank o’ 89
Sabbath bells
VI. THE SPAEWIFE—O, I wad like to ken 98
VII. THE BLAST—1875—It’s rainin’. Weet’s the 100
gairden sod
VIII. THE COUNTERBLAST—1886—My bonny man, the 103
warld, it’s true
IX. THE COUNTERBLAST IRONICAL—It’s strange that 108
God should fash to frame
X. THEIR LAUREATE TO AN ACADEMY CLASS DINNER 110
CLUB—Dear Thamson class, whaure’er I gang
XI. EMBRO HIE KIRK—The Lord Himsel’ in former 114
days
XII. THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD—In mony a 118
foreign pairt I’ve been
XIII. Late in the nicht 125
XIV. MY CONSCIENCE!—Of a’ the ills that flesh 130
can fear
XV. TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN—By Lyne and Tyne, by 133
Thames and Tees
XVI.
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