The book of British ballads . HE BONNIE BAIRNS. This exquisitely touching balladwe take from the Songs of Scotland, Ancient andModern, edited by Allan Cunningham. The editormodestly states that he has ventured to arrange andeke out these old and remarkable verses ; but, he says, I have no right to claim any more merit from theirappearance than what arises from inducing the streamof the story to glide more smoothly away. He adds, It is seldom, indeed, that song has chosen so singulara theme ; but the superstition it involves is current inScotland. The extent of the alterations to which the old
The book of British ballads . HE BONNIE BAIRNS. This exquisitely touching balladwe take from the Songs of Scotland, Ancient andModern, edited by Allan Cunningham. The editormodestly states that he has ventured to arrange andeke out these old and remarkable verses ; but, he says, I have no right to claim any more merit from theirappearance than what arises from inducing the streamof the story to glide more smoothly away. He adds, It is seldom, indeed, that song has chosen so singulara theme ; but the superstition it involves is current inScotland. The extent of the alterations to which the old and remarkableverses were subjected must now be left to conjecture; but it is probablethat the original was really nothing more than the crude outline of a storyreferred to in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and printed entire in Mother-wells Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, and in Buchans Ancient Ballads. If so,the ballad we here publish must be considered as, in reality, the composition of ; for the leadi
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