................................ 160
XX. THE BALLAD OF GOLDEN COUNSEL,...(_Alexander
Leighton_),.................................. 164
XXI. THE BALLAD OF MATRIMONY,......._(Alexander
_Leighton_),................................. 168
XXII. THE SONG OF ROSALIE, .........(_Alexander
Leighton_),.................................. 171
XXIII. THE BALLAD OF THE WORLD'S VANITY,.......
(_Alexander Leighton_),...................... 173
XXIV. THE SIEGE: A DRAMATIC TALE,........(_John
_Mackay Wilson_),............................ 177
XXV. FAREWELL TO A PLACE ON THE BORDERS,.......
(_Rev. W.G._),............................... 207
GLOSSARY,...................................... 211
GENERAL INDEX,................................. 251
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS, AND OF SCOTLAND.
THE MINSTREL'S TALES.
I.
EDMUND AND HELEN.
CANTO FIRST.
Come, sit thee by me, love, and thou shalt hear
A tale may win a smile and claim a tear--
A plain and simple story told in rhyme,
As sang the minstrels of the olden time.
No idle Muse I'll needlessly invoke--
No patron's aid, to steer me from the rock
Of cold neglect round which oblivion lies;
But, loved one, I will look into thine eyes,
From which young poesy first touched my soul,
And bade the burning words in numbers roll;--
They were the light in which I learned to sing;
And still to thee will kindling fancy cling--
Glow at thy smile, as when, in younger years,
I've seen thee smiling through thy maiden tears,
Like a fair floweret bent with morning dew,
While sunbeams kissed its leaves of loveliest hue.
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