THE MINSTREL: A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY LENNOX AMOTT. Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes Fulmina amem silvasque inglorius.... ... O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra! ... O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi —Virgil. LEWES: FARNCOMBE & CO. 1883. LEWES: FARNCOMBE AND CO., PRINTERS. TO ONE, WHO AT ONCE COMBINES TRUE SENSE WITH TRUE HONOUR, UNSELFISH PRINCIPLES WITH UNSELFISH FRIENDSHIP, WHOSE SPECIAL PROVINCE IS TO SYMPATHIZE AND TRUST, WHOSE ONLY FAULT IS HIS READY CONFIDENCE IN NATURES TOO UNLIKE HIS OWN, TO Harold Matthews THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, AS A JUST TRIBUTE OF THAT ESTEEM, WHICH ALONE IS THE REAL SOURCE OF ALL FRIENDSHIP, BY HIM WHO HAS VALUED HIS SOCIETY IN THE PAST, AND HOPES HE MAY LONG ENJOY IT IN THE FUTURE. Harold Matthews PREFACE. I am fully aware of the fact that the present volume is but an intrusion at the best; however, I trust my readers will be pleased to overlook the many faults of a bagatelle as insignificant and pitiable as its author. I am In the following pages I have introduced the first canto of Midsummer Idylls in a revised form, and it has been my especial care to correct, as far as it was consistent with the meaning of the passage, any hitch in the Iambic Measure which might offend the ear. An author has himself to please as well as his public, and it has been to me a matter of much study that the Iambics should be as pure, or at least as
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