Excerpt from Songs and Poems, Chiefly Scottish MY dear sir, - Emboldened by the warm manner in which you were kind enough to express your opinion of the following Songs, I have ventured to publish them; and knowing no one to whom Scottish Song is so much indebted as yourself, I beg respectfully to dedicate them to you. Those who may criticise them by scholastic rules will, I trust, find much to censure; for I composed them by no rules except those which my own observation and feelings formed - I knew no other. As I thought and felt, so have I written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.