PREFACE
In introducing my little volume to the public, I beg leave
to state that I make no pretence to "high-flown lear" or strict
poetical rules ," my
rhyming--like the blind fiddler's playing-is all by ear, or, rather, natural
instinct. Yet, humble though it is, I indulge in the hope that it will give a
little pleasure to the reader who, at some spare moment does me the honour of
reading my verses. Some of the pieces in this collection will be familiar to
many of my readers, having appeared in the" poet's column" of the
"Glasgow Weekly Mail," some of them in other columns, but a few have
not appeared in print before. With these few remarks, I leave my little volume
to the judgment of .my reader's.
66 Rumford Street, Bridgeton,
Glasgow, 1882.