Excerpt from The Heather Lintie: Being Poetical Pieces, Spiritual and Temporal, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Such, imperfectly stated, are the grounds upon which I ap peal to a generous and sympathising public for further patron age, and to the penetrating critic for the favour of his kind indulgence, at least to the same extent as that generally con ceded to the illiterate working man's muse. Seeing my para mount object in thus appearing before the public, I trust my readers, though they may be at times inclined to condemn my presumption and untaught composition, will at least give me credit for and applaud my humble but honest motives. They need not look for high-flown sentiment or ambitious verse in the following pages. I do not attempt to soar to heaven's gates, singing like the sky-lark but my song is lowly and homely as the lilt of the little warbler whose name I borrow for the Title-page: and I fondly trust that it will be found, like it, true to nature, as it certainly is the spontaneous out pourings of my heart. 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.