Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems and Songs, in Scotch and English
Many of the pieces are written in the Lowland Scottish dialect, the author's mother tongue, which abounds with words having no exact equivalent in the English of the present day - words that, within a certain range of subjects, add much to the poet's resources of rhyme and expression. And such Eng lish as the poet uses is the plain, popular Saxon speech, unmixed with long words of learned deriva tion. If the public give no worse welcome to this collection than they have generally given to the author's pieces, as they appeared singly, he will con sider himself to have been favourably judged and well received.
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