SOME POEMS BY SIR WALTER SCOTT




Contents:
Introduction by Henry Morley.
The Vision of Don Roderick
The Field of Waterloo
The Dance of Death
Romance of Dunois
The Troubadour
Pibroch of Donald Dhu



INTRODUCTION.



Since there is room in this volume for more verses than Colonel
Hay's {1}, I have added to them a few poems by Sir Walter Scott; the
first written in 1811 at the time of the struggle with Napoleon in
the Peninsula, the second in 1815, after Waterloo. Thus there is
over all this volume a thin haze of battle through which we see only
the finer feelings and the nobler hopes of man. The day is to come
when war shall be no more, but wars have been and may again be
necessary to bring on that day; and it is of such war, not untinged
with the light of heaven, that we have passing shadows in this
little book.