CONTENTS.

PREFACE. SONGS. CUSTER. THE AMERICAN GIRL. THE GOOD SHIP "OHIO." THE AMERICAN GIRLS. THE UNION OATH. BETSIE BROWN. SWORD OF JEHOVAH. BLACK EYES. THE AMERICAN ÇA IRA. BIRD OF THE SUMMERING NORTH. THE WAR SONG OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. THE LIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES. BABYLON. THE BRITISH GYP. DEATH SONG OF THE ENFANTS PERDUS. FARE THEE WELL, O LOVE OF WOMAN! EVER TO BE. JOCK AND JEAN. THE FLAG OF BROTHERS. WITH A HO-HO-HO! AND A HI-HI-HI! SEE THE FIELD OF BATTLE GLEAMS. THE DYING SOLDIER TO THE NIGHTINGALE. BURKE OF THE BRAVE BRIGADE. TEARS, TEARS. SHERRY IN THE SADDLE. HOME! HOME! THE CUSTER WAIL. WEEP NOT FOR HIM. TARRY YE NOT IN EGYPT. GIF A LASSIE SPURN A LADDIE. THE AMERICAN CONSUMMATION. THE YOUNG VETS. MAIDEN KNICKERBOCKER AND THE GALLANT CAPTAIN PICKWICK IT IS TIME TO BEGIN TO CONCLUDE. MARSHAL NEY'S FAREWELL. THE LILY LAND OF FRANCE. THE THREE P'S.

PREFACE.

In issuing this collection of Songs, the author makes the following acknowledgments:—

"The American Ça ira" was suggested while reading the French song of that name, from which song the phrase ça ira alone was appropriated.

In "The Song of William the Conqueror," his characteristic oath, "By the splendor of God!" is used.

In the "Death Song of the Enfants Perdus," a few remembered lines or fragments have been appropriated from an anonymous and almost forgotten English ballad.

"Burke of the Brave Brigade" was written in memory of the late Dennis F. Burke, the last commander of the Irish Brigade in the battle of Gettysburg.

"The Custer Wail" was composed in a dream, in 1877.

In the last two stanzas of "Marshall Ney's Farewell," his own language translated is used in nearly half the lines. The first line of this poem is the expression used by Napoleon, on his voyage to St. Helena, when sighting the shore of France for the last time.

"The Lily Land of France" was suggested by the French song, "Partant pour la Syrie," from which nothing was appropriated but the accentual movement.

Except in the above mentioned instances, the songs here collected were composed without finding a model or a suggestion in any other writer.

The "Soldier Songs" and the "Love Songs" are printed alternately.

A.H. LAIDLAW.

THE WAR SONG OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

"By the splendor of God!" was a characteristic oath of William the Conqueror.

BURKE OF THE BRAVE BRIGADE.

Inscribed to Dennis F. Burke, last Commander of the Irish Brigade, at Gettysburg.