A Highland Regiment

by Ewart Alan Mackintosh

A HIGHLAND REGIMENT

A HIGHLAND REGIMENT
BY E. A. MACKINTOSH, M.C.
Lt. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXVII

Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh

To
The officers and men
of the 5th seaforth highlanders
and especially to
MAJOR A. L. MACMILLAN
who is and will be
to me as to all the rest
the major for ever

CONTENTS

I
PAGE
To a Private Soldier		11
Anns an Ghleann'san Robh Mi Og		13
From a War Station		15
Cha Till MacCruimein		16
To a Dead Soldier		18
The Waiting Wife		20
Christ in Flanders		21
Harvest		22
Oxford from the Trenches		24
Misérere		25
The Undying Race		27
In No Man's Land		29
Snow in France		31
τέτλαθι δὴ κρἀδίη		33
Matri Almae		35
Before the Summer		37
To My Sister		38
In Memoriam		40
A Creed		43
Peace Upon Earth		44
The Volunteer		47
On Vimy Ridge		48
In Memoriam—R. M. Stalker		50
II
The Kingdom of the Downs		55
To the Unknown Love		57
To Catullus		58
Mallaig Bay		59
Verses to Two Children		60
In the Night		61
Carol of the Innocents		62
Wanderer's Desire		64
Growing Pains		66
Sonnet		70
To —		71
Dead Youth		72
At the End		74
Ecclesiastes		75
The Lost Lands		77
Clytemnestra		79
Dedication		81
Three Songs from the Remembered Gods		82
Neil's Song		86
Old Age		88
The Heartless Voice		90
Hope		91
The Last Meeting		93
Vale Atque Ave		95