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Excerpt from Evening Hours: Poems and Songs The reader, who may have been glancing over popular collections of Scottish songs, Will recognise a number of pieces in the present volume that he has often seen before. Indeed, some of the songs that appear in this book have long been familiar to the public; and, seeing that this is the case, it would be afi'ectation to deny, that the author has a sort of pride in gathering them together in a book, which is the first, and in all likelihood may be the last, that shall come into the world under his care. He deems it a duty that he owes to himself - seeing that he has got the length of publishing a volume - to adopt those pieces of his which had been floating about unacknowledged; and if they deserve either praise or blame, the one or the other may be awarded, without the fear of mistaking the author, or perhaps the perpetrator. 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.