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THE SAILOR'S WIFE

Jauds: probably the same as jade, a familiar term among country folk for a giddy young girl.

Muckle: great, big. Shoon: shoes. Slaes: sloes, a black wild plum. Upon the bauk: one version says "into the crib," meaning in the coop. Thraw: twist. Gar ilka thing look braw: make everything look fine. Bigonet: linen cap. Maun: must. Baith: both. Leal: loyal. Caller: fresh. Greet: weep.

THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE

The Royal George, a British man-of-war, was overset while being repaired, and Rear Admiral Kempenfelt and all on board were drowned. This occurred at Spithead, August 29, 1782.

ANNIE LAURIE

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Gowan: wild daisy.

COMING THROUGH THE RYE

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Gin if. Dinna: do not. Frae: from.

HEY, THE DUSTY MILLER

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Leeze me on the calling: what a fine trade it is!

JOHN ANDERSON

Brent: high and smooth. Beld: bald. Pow: head. Canty: cheerful.

THE WINSOME WEE THING

Neist: next. Tine: be lost. Wrack: vexation. Warstle: wrestling.

BANNOCKBURN

The battle of Bannockburn was fought in 1314; the Scotch, under
Robert Bruce, defeating the English, under Edward II.

AFTER BLENHEIM

The English and Austrians, under the Duke of Marlborough and
Prince Eugene, defeated the French and Bavarians at Blenheim,

in 1704.

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Bourgeon: bud, sprout.

BOAT SONG

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PIBROCH OF DONALD DHU This ancient pibroch, or martial song of Clan MacDonald, is thought to refer to the expedition of Donald Balloch, who, in 1431, invaded Lochaber, and, at Inverlochy, with inferior numbers, defeated and put to flight the Earls of Mar and Caithness.

THE NIGHT BEFORE WATERLOO

The battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815, near the Belgian village of that name; the English, under Wellington, with their Prussian allies, defeating the army of Napoleon.

ROBIN HOOD

Morris a dance performed with bells, castanets, tambours, etc.
Grenè shawe: green woods.

GLENARA

The tradition is that Maclean of Duart, wishing to be rid of his wife, had her put on a rock in the sea, to be washed off by the waves, and then announced that she was dead, and set the day for the funeral. By some good fortune she was rescued before that day and restored to her father; her relatives, gathered at the mock funeral, avenged her by killing Maclean and throwing his body into the ready-made grave.

HOHENLINDEN

The battle of Hohenlinden was fought in 1800; the Austrians, under the Archduke John, being defeated by the French and Bavarians, under Moreau.

THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET

This poem was written in a friendly competition with Keats, whose poem on the same subject is given on page 164.

CHARLIE IS MY DARLING

Grat: wept. Ilka: every. Owre: over.

Leal: loyal.

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MY AIN COUNTREE

Bairnies: children.

Tint: lost.

Win back: return.

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IVRY

Henry of Navarre was the leader of the Huguenot or Protestant party in France, and the battle of Ivry, in 1590, was one of the successes which secured him on the French throne as Henry IV.

THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER

The Prince: Charles Edward, grandson of James II, and "Pretender" to the English crown, landed on the Scotch coast in 1745. Friends of his cause gathered about him, and at the battle of Preston Pans he routed the English army that was sent against him. But at Culloden, in the next year, he was overwhelmingly defeated, and this event was the end of the active hopes of the party of the "Scottish Cavaliers," who had been devoted to the Stuart family from the time of Charles I's misfortunes.

BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE

Sir John Moore, commanding British forces, repulsed the French at Corunna, Spain, in 1809, but was killed in the action, and buried that night by the English before they embarked. The French built him a tomb at Corunna, with this inscription:

JOHN MOORE

Leader of the English Armies

Slain in Battle

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thrums: purring. Spelder'd: stretched out. Disna: does not. Cheep chirp. Waukrife: wakeful. Winna: will not. Glow'rin' staring. Skirlin': screaming. Kenna: know not. In a creel: beside himself. Ruggin': pulling. Lug: ear. Ravellin' a her thrums: confusing her purring, disturbing it.

SONG OF MARION'S MEN

Marion was a brilliant partisan leader in the American Revolution, whose band of "irregular" fighters, living in the forests and swamps of South Carolina, harassed the British forces operating in that region

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PEGASUS IN POUND

Pegasus a winged horse, said to have sprung from the blood of
Medusa when she was killed by Perseus.

OLD IRONSIDES

This poem was suggested by the proposal to break up the famous old American warship Constitution, called "Old Ironsides," and sell the timber and iron.

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

This charge was made during the battle of Balaklava, in the Crimean War, in 1854, and was the result of the misunderstanding of an order.

Hern : heron.

THE BROOK

CALLICLES' SONG OF APOLLO

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Apollo: god of music and leader of the nine muses.

QUEEN ALCESTIS AND THE GOD OF LOVE

Met: dreamed. Tho: then. Flowrouns: borders of flowers. Lite: little. A' perle: one pearl. Greves: groves, i.e. leaves and branches in the embroidered design. Gilte: golden. Unneathes : scarcely. Gledes : coals.

DAME NATURE CROWNS THE LION

Compear: appear at court.

Cheer : face. Corpse : body. But

fear : without fear. Listly : easily. Busteous : rough.

Unicorn: a fabulous animal, like a horse, with one horn in the middle of the forehead.

TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY

Isiphil : Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos.

Pomander: a perfumed ball to carry in the pocket.

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LORD RONALD

THE GARDENER

Weed: dress. Camovine: camomile. Brade:

broad. Cute : ankle. Brawn : calf.

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GLENLOGIE

Maun: must. Gar: make some one. Frae: from. His lane. alone. Gaed ben: went in. Binna: be not.

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DESCRIPTION OF SPRING

Mings: mingles. Springs: revives.

WAKE NOW, MY LOVE, AWAKE

The Epithalamion, or wedding hymn, from which these two selec-
tions are taken, was written in honor of Spenser's own marriage.
Mavis song-thrush. Descant variation. Ouzell: blackbird.
Ruddock: redbreast.

CUPID AND THE BEE

Closely secretly.

Whereas where.

MENAPHON'S ROUNDELAY

Ganymede, the beautiful youth who served the gods as cupbearer, seems to have been on companionable terms with the eagle, the favorite bird of Jove, or Jupiter, and sometimes even to have employed him as a messenger.

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