The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 3‪.‬

“She’s gane to dwall in heaven,” a bereaved lover sings—and imagines his lass making even the angels’ songs more fit for heaven. What kind of country can hold grief like that beside a lover’s vow, a homesick cry, and a song for the open sea?

In this third volume of Charles Rogers’s mid-nineteenth-century gathering of Scotland’s songs from the past half-century, private feeling meets a land steeped in memory: a lass mourned after Culloden, a wanderer longing for home, a ship running before the wind. Rogers sets Scottish lyric poetry against the older tradition of Greece, asking what a people’s songs reveal about the hearts and history that made them. From love and loss to loyalty and landscape, these voices change register but keep Scotland close. Which song will stay with you—and what does it disclose?

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