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TITLE: NEW COLLECTED RHYMES
AUTHOR: ANDREW LANG
EBOOK: E03536 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

from the 1905 Longmans, Green and Co. edition.

New Collected Rhymes

by Andrew Lang

Contents:

Preface
In Augustinum Dobson
Loyal Lyrics
    How the Maid Marched from Blois
    Lone Places of the Deer
    An Old Song
    Jacobite "Auld Lang Syne"
    The Prince's Birthday
    The Tenth of June, 1715
    White Rose Day
    Red and White Roses
    The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
    Kenmure
    Culloden
    The Last of the Leal
    Jeanne d'Arc
Cricket Rhymes
    To Helen
    Ballade of Dead Cricketers
    Brahma
Critical of Life, Art, and Literature
    Gainsborough Ghosts
    A Remonstrance with the Fair
    Rhyme of Rhymes
    Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes
    Rococo
    The Food of Fiction
    "A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts"
    Matrimony
    Piscatori Piscator
    The Contented Angler
    Off my Game
    The Property of a Gentleman who has Given up Collecting
    The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
    Ballade of the Optimist
    Zimbabwe
    Love's Cryptogram
    Tusitala
    Disdainful Diaphenia
    Tall Salmacis
Jubilee Poems
    What Francesco said of the Jubilee
    The Poet and the Jubilee
    On any Beach
    Ode of Jubilee
    Jubilee before Revolution
Folk Songs
    French Peasant Songs
Ballads
    The Young Ruthven
    The Queen o' Spain and the Bauld McLean
    Keith of Craigentolly

PREFACE

This poor little flutter of rhymes would not have been let down
the wind:  the project would have been abandoned but for the too
flattering encouragement of a responsible friend.  I trust that he
may not "live to rue the day," like Keith of Craigentolly in the
ballad.

The "Loyal Lyrics" on Charles and James and the White Rose must
not be understood as implying a rebellious desire for the
subversion of the present illustrious dynasty.

"These are but symbols that I sing,
These names of Prince, and rose, and King;
Types of things dear that do not die,
But reign in loyal memory.
ACROSS THE WATER surely they
Abide their twenty-ninth of May;
And we shall hail their happy reign,
When Life comes to his own again," -

over the water that divides us from the voices and faces of our
desires and dreams.

Of the ballads, The Young Ruthven and The Queen of Spain were
written in competition with the street minstrels of the close of
the sixteenth century.  The legend on which The Young Ruthven is
based is well known; The Queen of Spain is the story of the
Florencia, a ship of the Spanish Armada, wrecked in Tobermory Bay,
as it was told to me by a mariner in the Sound of Mull.  In Keith
of Craigentolly the family and territorial names of the hero or
villain are purposely altered, so as to avoid injuring
susceptibilities and arousing unavailing regrets.

IN AUGUSTINUM DOBSON--JAM RUDE DONATUM

Dear Poet, now turned out to grass
(Like him who reigned in Babylon),
Forget the seasons overlaid
By business and the Board of Trade:
And sing of old-world lad and lass
As in the summers that are gone.

Back to the golden prime of Anne!
When you ambassador had been,
And brought o'er sea the King again,
Beatrix Esmond in his train,
Ah, happy bard to hold her fan,
And happy land with such a Queen!

We live too early, or too late,
You should have shared the pint of Pope,
And taught, well pleased, the shining shell
To murmur of the fair Lepel,
And changed the stars of St. John's fate
To some more happy horoscope.

By duchesses with roses crowned,
And fed with chicken and champagne,
Urbane and witty, and too wary
To risk the feud of Lady Mary,
You should have walked the courtly ground
Of times that cannot come again.

Bring back these years in verse or prose,
(I very much prefer your verse!)
As on some Twenty-Ninth of May
Restore the splendour and the sway,
Forget the sins, the wars, the woes -
The joys alone must you rehearse.

Forget the dunces (there is none
So stupid as to snarl at YOU);
So may your years with pen and book
Run pleasant as an English brook
Through meadows floral in the sun,
And shadows fragrant of the dew.

And thus at ending of your span -
As all must end--the world shall say,
"His best he gave:  he left us not
A line that saints could wish to blot,
For he was blameless, though a man,
And though the poet, he was gay!"

HOW THE MAID MARCHED FROM BLOIS

(Supposed to be narrated by James Power, or Polwarth, her Scottish
banner-painter.)

The Maiden called for her great destrier,
But he lashed like a fiend when the Maid drew near:
"Lead him forth to the Cross!" she cried, and he stood
Like a steed of bronze by the Holy Rood!

Then I saw the Maiden mount and ride,
With a good steel sperthe that swung by her side,
And girt with the sword of the Heavenly Bride,
That is sained with crosses five for a sign,
The mystical sword of St. Catherine.
And the lily banner was blowing wide,
With the flowers of France on the field of fame
And, blent with the blossoms, the Holy Name!
And the Maiden's blazon was shown on a shield,
ARGENT, A DOVE, ON AN AZURE FIELD;
That banner was wrought by this hand, ye see,
For the love of the Maid and chivalry.

Her banner was borne by a page of grace,
With hair of gold, and a lady's face;
And behind it the ranks of her men were dressed -
Never a man but was clean confessed,
Jackman and archer, lord and knight,
Their souls were clean and their hearts were light:
There was never an oath, there was never a laugh,
And La Hire swore soft by his leading staff!
Had we died in that hour we had won the skies,
And the Maiden had marched us through Paradise!

A moment she turned to the people there,
Who had come to gaze on the Maiden fair;
A moment she glanced at the ring she wore,
She murmured the Holy Name it bore,
Then, "For France and the King, good people pray!"
She spoke, and she cried to us, "ON AND AWAY!"
And the shouts broke forth, and the flowers rained down,
And the Maiden led us to Orleans town.

LONE PLACES OF THE DEER

Lone places of the deer,
Corrie, and Loch, and Ben,
Fount that wells in the cave,
Voice of the burn and the wave,
Softly you sing and clear
Of Charlie and his men!

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