I have to thank the Editors of the _Cornhill Magazine_, _Country Life_, and _The Outlook_, respectively, for their permission to reprint in this Collection such of the following poems as they have published. There are few poets to-day who write in the Scots vernacular, and the modesty of the supply is perhaps determined by the slenderness of the demand, for pure Scots is a tongue which in the changes of the age is not widely understood, even in Scotland. The various accents remain, but the old words tend to be forgotten, and we may be in sight of the time when that noble speech shall be degraded to a northern dialect of English. The love of all vanishing things burns most strongly in those …
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