The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets (Classic Reprint)
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The Scottish Minstrel
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Excerpt from The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets As if pointing to a condition of primeval happiness, Poetry has been the first language of nations. The Lyrics Muse has especially chosen the land of the mountain and the flood; and such scenes she has only abandoned when the inhabitants have sacrificed their liberties. Edward I, who massacred the Minstrels of Wales, might have spared the butchery, as their strains were likely to fall unheeded on the ears of their subjugated countrymen. The martial music of Ireland is a matter of tradition; on the first step of the invader the genius of chivalric song departed from Erin. Scotland retains her independence, and those strains which are known in northern Europe as the most inspiriting and delightful, are recognized as the native minstrelsy of Caledonia. The origin of Scottish song and melody is as difficult of settlement as is the era of Ossian. There probably were songs and music in Scotland in ages long prior to the period of written history. Preserved and transmitted through many generations of men, stern and defiant as the mountains amidst which it was produced, the Minstrelsy of the North has, in the course of centuries, continued steadily to increase alike in aspiration of sentiment and harmony of numbers. The spirit of the Scottish lyre seems to have been aroused during the war of independence, and the ardour of the strain has not since diminished. The metrical chronicler, Wyntoun, has preserved a stanza, lamenting the calamitous death of Alexander III, an event which proved the commencement of the national struggle: "Quhen Alysandyr oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle: Oure gold wes changyd into lede. Cryst, borne in-to virgynyte, Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyt.
Excerpt from The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets As if pointing to a condition of primeval happiness, Poetry has been the first language of nations. The Lyrics Muse has especially chosen the land of the mountain and the flood; and such scenes she has only abandoned when the inhabitants have sacrificed their liberties. Edward I, who massacred the Minstrels of Wales, might have spared the butchery, as their strains were likely to fall unheeded on the ears of their subjugated countrymen. The martial music of Ireland is a matter of tradition; on the first step of the invader the genius of chivalric song departed from Erin. Scotland retains her independence, and those strains which are known in northern Europe as the most inspiriting and delightful, are recognized as the native minstrelsy of Caledonia. The origin of Scottish song and melody is as difficult of settlement as is the era of Ossian. There probably were songs and music in Scotland in ages long prior to the period of written history. Preserved and transmitted through many generations of men, stern and defiant as the mountains amidst which it was produced, the Minstrelsy of the North has, in the course of centuries, continued steadily to increase alike in aspiration of sentiment and harmony of numbers. The spirit of the Scottish lyre seems to have been aroused during the war of independence, and the ardour of the strain has not since diminished. The metrical chronicler, Wyntoun, has preserved a stanza, lamenting the calamitous death of Alexander III, an event which proved the commencement of the national struggle: "Quhen Alysandyr oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle: Oure gold wes changyd into lede. Cryst, borne in-to virgynyte, Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyt.
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The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets (Classic Reprint)
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Charles Rogers, Books, History, The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets (Classic Reprint), The Scottish Minstrel: The Songs of Scotland Subsequent to Burns With Memoirs of the Poets (Classic Reprint).
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