Note 5 — BOOK I SCOTS
Reading edition
The Greek text has not been followed in the songs, as it would be hard to find equivalents for Lycidas and Simichidas in Lowland Scots. Jock’s song is a free paraphrase of Victor Hugo’s Guitare. How close that famous lyric is to the Theocritean manner will be admitted by those who remember Walter Headlam’s Greek version of it.