Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus

Project Gutenberg's Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus, by Violet JacobThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Songs of Angus and More Songs of AngusAuthor: Violet JacobRelease Date: March 6, 2006 [EBook #17933]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF ANGUS AND MORE ***Produced by Andrew Sly[Transcriber's Note: Two small volumes of Violet Jacob's poetry have been combined together to produce this text.]SONGS OF ANGUSByVIOLET JACOBAuthor of "Flemington"London John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1919(First published in 1915)NOTEI have to thank the Editors of the Cornhill Magazine, Country Life, and The Outlook, respectively, for theirpermission to reprint in this Collection such of the following poems as they have published.V. J.PREFACEThere are few poets to-day who write in the Scots vernacular, and the modesty of the supply is perhaps determinedby the slenderness of the demand, for pure Scots is a tongue which in the changes of the age is not widelyunderstood, even in Scotland. The various accents remain, but the old words tend to be forgotten, and we may be insight of the time when that noble speech shall be degraded to a northern dialect of English. The love of all vanishingthings burns most strongly in ...