“The dialect is Angus, and in every song there is the sound of the east wind and the rain.... She has many moods, from the stalwart humour of ‘The Beadle o’ Drumlee’ and ‘Jeemsie Miller’ to the haunting lilt of ‘The Gean-Trees’ and the pathos of ‘Craigo Woods’ and ‘The Lang Road,’ but in them all are the same clarity of vision and clear beauty of phrase.” All these poems, with the exception of the last two in the book, have appeared in _Country Life_, and I have to thank the editor for his courteous permission to reproduce them.…
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