Orellana and other poems Author:James Logie Robertson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BRIERS " There grows a bonniebrier buss in oor kailyard." —Old Song. chapter{Section 4IN MEMORIAM. " There is one event unto all." Out there in th... more »e sunshine, that's gilding The garden that seldom is green, The workmen are lazily building A pillar in praise of the Dean. Last week they were at a church-steeple, And next week it may be a jail: —They're a common mechanical people, You see, and their labour's for sale. Two soldiers at them are gazing, Schoolboys, and a loafer or two : chapter{Section 5Asks one, " What is it they're raising ?" Another, " And what did he do ?" Pale Frank hurries past to the College, Hollow-eyed, red-nosed, and lean ; The way to get on is get knowledge, And he's hoping one day to be Dean. THE MASK OF MISERY. "Thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words but they do them not." The lattice is open, and into the street Floats music sad and slow; To the midnight Bobby it's quite a treat —Up there there's company, light, and heat, And the luxury of woe. Now none will say she cannot play, That lady at the keys ; And the singer that beside her stands With Gounod's music in his hands Can melt a soul with ease. There is a green hill far away And the passion sinks and swells. —Do you think they believe it? that lady gay? That silken tenor? . . . Or would you say It's a sound and nothing else? Be this as it may, they dissipate The night with wailing psalms; And the rest of the company clap and prate, While a waif from the Pleasaunce at the gate Sings merrily for alms. chapter{Section 6III. FOUND DEAD. A Little wayward human elf Lay dead at Cassar's feet Where sceptred Caesar lif...« less