Original (English)

p. viiTO ELEANOR CHARLOTTE SELLAR ‘Ban and Arrière Ban!’ a host    Broken, beaten, all unled, They return as doth a ghost    From the dead. Sad or glad my rallied rhymes,    Sought our dusty papers through, For the sake of other times    Come to you. Times and places new we know,    Faces fresh and seasons strange But the friends of long ago    Do not change. p. ixMany of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: ‘How they held the Bass’ was in ‘Blackwood’s Maga