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BALLADS AND LYRICAL PIECES. BY WALTER SCOTT. These Ballads have been alreadypublished in different collections, some in the MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOT- TISH BORDER, others in the TALES OF WONDER, and some in both these Miscellanies. They are now first col- lected into one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical Collections of MR GEORGE THOMSON and MR WHYTE. CONTENTS. Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronalds Coronach, The Eve of Saint John, Cadyow Castle, The Grey Brother, Page. Thomas the Rhymer, Parti 73 Part II 93 . Part The Fire King, Frederick and Alice, The Wild Huntsmen, The Erl-King, War Song, The Norman Horse-Shoe, The Dying Bard, 1 21 39 61 III 120 134 143 148 162 167 173 176 The Maid of Toro, . . - 178 Hellyellyn, 180 . r-.i GLENFINLAS, OR LORD RONALDS CORONACH. THE tradition, upon which the following t stanzas are founded, runs thus While two Highland hunters were passing the night in a solitary bathy, a hut, built for the purpose of hunting, and making merry over their venison and whisky, one of them expressed a wish, that they had pretty lasses to complete their party. The words were scarcely uttered, when two beautiful young women, ha- bited in green, entered the hut, dancing and singing. One of the hunters was seduced by the syren, who at- tached herself particularly to him, to leave the hut the other remained, and, suspicious of the fair seducers, con- Coronach is the lamentation for a deceased warrior, sung by the aged of the clan. A t

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