ROBERT KIRK, WHO WENT TO HIS OWN HERD, AND ENTERED INTO THE LAND OF THE PEOPLE OF PEACE, IN THE YEAR OF GRACE SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO, AND OF HIS AGE FIFTY-TWO. vii The Fairy Minister IN MEMORY OF THE: REV. viAnd folk to come, ayont the sea,May hear the yowl of the Banshie,Kirk & Lang, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies (PDF Cor Hendriks, maart ’16) 2Īnd frae the water-kelpie flee, Ere a' things cease,And island bairns may stolen be By the Folk o' Peace.Faith, they might steal me, wi' ma will,And, ken'd I ony Fairy hill,I'd lay me down there, snod and still, Their land to win,For, man, I've maistly had my fill O' this world's din.p. kirks, An awfa' place!Nane kens the Covenant o' Works Frae that of Grace!But whiles, maybe, to them ye'll readBlads o' the Covenanting creed,And whiles their pagan wames ye'll feed On halesome parritch And sync ye'll gar them learn a screed O' the Shorter Carritch.Yet thae uncovenanted shaversHae rowth, ye say, o' clash and claversO' gods and etins-auld wives' havers, But their delight The voice d him that tells them quavers Just wi' fair fright.And ye might tell, ayont the faem,Thae Hieland clashes o' oor hame.To speak the truth, I tak' na shame To half believe them And, stamped wi' TUSITALA'S name, They'll a' receive them.p. v DEDICATION TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,O Louis! you that like them maist,Ye're far frae kelpie, wraith, and ghaist,And fairy dames, no unco chaste, And haunted cell.Among a heathen clan ye're placed, That kens na hell!Ye hae nae heather, peat, nor birks,Nae troot in a' your burnies lurks,There are nae bonny U.
PUBLISHED BY DAVID NUTT, IN THE STRANDKirk & Lang, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies (PDF Cor Hendriks, maart ’16) 1 The Text by Robert Kirk, M.A., Minister of Aberfoyle, A.D. iii The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research. ii Volume VIIIFive hundred and fifty copies of this Edition have been printed, five hundred of which are for sale.
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