Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 4: With an Introduction and Notes, Historical and Critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets
I am inclined to claim for the very oldest of our Scot tish songs, a moderate antiquity and a humble origin. The greatest lover of Scotland, will be unable to find the wild ?owers of her lyric verse ?oating farther up the stream of her history than the reign of Robert Bruce and the fondest admirer of her song cannot point to a surer source for its purest and most lasting strains, than to our herdsmen and warriors. Those Who wish to find its origin among the wild and shadowy traditions of the original people of the land, ought to tell us why the.
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