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Editor: Bates, Katherine Lee, 1859-1929


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"Ye're straight and tall, handsome withal, But your pride owergangs your wit; If ye do not your ways refrain, In Pirie's chair ye'll sit. "In Pirie's chair ye'll sit, I say, The lowest seat in hell; If ye do not amend your ways, It's there that ye maun dwell!" Wi' that he vanished frae her sight, In the twinking of an eye; And naething mair the lady saw But the gloomy clouds and sky. * * * * * THE TWA SISTERS O' BINNORIE. There were twa sisters lived in a bower; Binnorie, O Binnorie; The youngest o' them, O she was a flower, By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie.
Youth and Egolatry

Youth and Egolatry By PIO BAROJA Translated from the Spanish By Jacob S. Fassett, Jr. and Frances L. Phillips TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BY H. L. MENCKEN PROLOGUE ON INTELLECTUAL LOVE EGOTISM I. FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS
There cam' a squire frae the west, Binnorie, O Binnorie; He lo'ed them baith, but the youngest best, By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie. He courted the eldest wi' glove and ring, Binnorie, O Binnorie; But he lo'ed the youngest abune a' thing, By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie. The eldest she was vexed sair, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And sore envied her sister fair, By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie. The eldest said to the youngest ane, Binnorie, O Binnorie; "Will ye see our father's ships come in?" By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie. She's ta'en her by the lily hand; Binnorie, O Binnorie; And led her down to the river strand, By the bonnie mill-dams o' Binnorie.