Transcribed from the 1894 Longmans, Green and Co. edition byDavid Price,

Ban and Arrière Ban

A RALLY OF FUGITIVE RHYMES

BY ANDREW LANG

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

[All rights reserved]

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

p.viiTO
ELEANOR CHARLOTTE SELLAR

‘Ban and ArrièreBan!’ 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 haveappeared in Magazines: ‘How they held the Bass’ wasin ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’; the ‘Ballad ofthe Philanthropist’ in ‘Punch’; ‘CalaisSands’ in ‘The Magazine of Art’ (Messrs.Cassell and Co.); and others are recaptured from‘Longman’s Magazine,’‘Scribner’s,’ ‘The Illustrated LondonNews,’ ‘The English Illustrated Magazine,’‘Wit and Wisdom’ (lines from Omar Khayyam),‘The St. James’s Gazette,’ and possibly otherserials.  Some pieces are from commendatory verses forbooks, as for Mr. Jacobs’s ‘Æsop’; someare from Mr. Rider Haggard’s ‘World’sDesire,’ and ‘Cleopatra,’ two are fromKirk’s ‘Secret Commonwealth’ (Nutt, 1893), and‘Neiges d’Antan,’ are from the author’s‘Ballads and Lyrics of Old France,’ now long out ofprint.

p.xiCONTENTS