Transcribed from the 1894 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

 

 

Ban and Arrière Ban

A RALLY OF FUGITIVE RHYMES

BY ANDREW LANG

LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET 1894

AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET

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p. viEdinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty

p. vi

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty

p. viiTO ELEANOR CHARLOTTE SELLAR

p. vii

TO

‘Ban and Arrière Ban!’ a host Broken, beaten, all unled, They return as doth a ghost From the dead.

Sad or glad my rallied rhymes, Sought our dusty papers through, For the sake of other times Come to you.

Times and places new we know, Faces fresh and seasons strange But the friends of long ago Do not change.

p. ixMany of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: ‘How they held the Bass’ was in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’; the ‘Ballad of the Philanthropist’ in ‘Punch’; ‘Calais Sands’ in ‘The Magazine of Art’ (Messrs. Cassell and Co.); 

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