Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, Part IV.—Winter 1896-7 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2019</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>EGV4_32po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> </editor> <author>W., Cuthbertson</author> <title>Grierson of Lag Patrick Geddes and Colleagues Edinburgh T. Fisher Unwin London Winter 1896-7 Cuthbertson, W. "Grierson of Lag." The Evergreen; A Northern Seasonal, vol. 4, Winter 1896-7, pp. 115-117. Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/egv4_cuthbertson_grierson/

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                    GRIERSON OF LAG
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SIR Robert has risen at break o' day    In the spring time o' the year, He has belted his sword upon his thigh    An' mounted his guid grey mear. An' he 's gathered his men in the mornin' licht    To the hunt he has a mind, Yet never the tod or the fallow deer    Is the game he thinks to find. The merle has piped to the risin' sun,    As oot at the yett he gaes; An' the heather-bleat has called his mate    By Maxwellton's bonny braes. An' they ride ower hill an' they ride through dale,    An' doun by the dark Wolfs slock; An' aye Sir Robert rides at their heid,    Wi'een for the puir hill-folk. An' they 've catchit a laddie wi' een like the sky,    His hair's like the gowden sheen; An' Sir Robert has speired if aucht he kens,    Or auld Tam Glen has seen.           116 They've questioned him baith lang and sair;    But he daurna tell the truth: For weel kens he o'auld Tam Glen—    An' his hert is in his mouth. An' the laddie lookit as through a mist,    For his een the saut tears gem: 'I'se tell ye noucht o' my faither's friend,'    He says to him an' them. Deep breethit the Red Wud Laird o' Lag;    An' he sweers he'll gar him say, Or he'll drap him doun in the linn's red flood    Whaur the rocks mak nicht o' day. An' the laddie's tongue is thick wi' tears,    An' he prayeth them on his knee: 'Hae nane o' ye weans o' your ain at hame,    That ye lat a bairnie dee?' But he speaketh to ane that hath nae ruth,    Nae qualms ever stirred his hert. 'Gin ye'll no' tell me o' auld Tam Glen,    Your soul an' you maun pairt.' He's grippit him sair by the red gowd hair—    The laddie hears the red linn pourin'— An' he's speired him ower an' ower again—    The laddie hears the kelpie roarin'. Wild swirls the red linn's angry flood:'    There 's bluid upon the stane— Sir Robert, he has an empty hand,    His soul, a murdered wean.           117 He's turned an' leuch to his troopers syne,    But never a lauch gied they, But grippit their swords wi' a fearsome look,    But daurna mak them play. Sir Robert has tryit anither lauch,    Like a lost soul lauchs he now; 'Sweet are the pickins aff that whalp's banes    The corbies sail hae, I trow.'

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A mither has fand a murdered wean    In the pool at the red linn's fit, An' the wound that straikit his bonny broo    Wi'her tears she has washit it. She's rowed him in her airmis twa    An' borne him till her hame; She has straikit his limbs and kaimit his hair,    An' ower him greets her lane.

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When the win's are still an' the linn's red flood    Is fed wi' the beltane rain; There rises a soun' in the howe o' the nicht    Like a bairn that greets his lane.

W. CUTHBERTSON.