s: River--Druid's Temple--three circles of stones--the outer-most


s: sunk--the second has thirteen stones remaining--the innermost has


s: _Friday._--Walk with Mrs. Stewart and Beard to Birnam top--fine


s: Ride up Tummel River to Blair--Fascally a beautiful romantic


s: children dance--Sup--Mr. Graham of Fintray.


s: Bruar--Daldecairoch--Dalwhinnie--Dine--Snow on the hills 17 feet


s: _Wednesday._--Loch Ness--Braes of Ness--General's hut--Falls of


s: _Thursday._--Come over Culloden Muir--reflections on the field of


s: father in the forty-five; and Mr. Falconer, a spare, irascible,


s: warm-hearted Norland, and a nonjuror--Brodie-house to lie.


s: haunted--that the country folks won't pass it by night.


s: Come to Cullen to lie--hitherto the country is sadly poor and


s: Come to Aberdeen--meet with Mr. Chalmers, printer, a facetious


s: _Tuesday._--Breakfast with Mr. Burns--lie at Lawrence Kirk--Album


s: romantic margin of the Grampian hills, to Perth--fine, fruitful,


s: _Saturday Morning._--Leave Perth--come up Strathearn to


s: &c.--Lie at Kinross--reflections in a fit of the colic.


s: _Sunday._--Pass through a cold, barren country to


s: Queensferry--dine--cross the ferry and on to Edinburgh.


s: "The blythe Strathspey springs up, reminding some


s: Of nights when Gow's old arm, (nor old the tale,)


s: Unceasing, save when reeking cans went round,


s: Made heart and heel leap light as bounding roe.


s: And festive joy sedate; that ancient garb


s: Unvaried,--tartan hose, and bonnet blue!


s: No more shall Beauty's partial eye draw forth


s: Shall he repeat those measures, that in days


s: Of other years, could soothe a falling prince,


s: And light his visage with a transient smile


s: Gilding a sear tree with a passing beam!


s: Or play to sportive children on the green


s: Dancing at gloamin hour; or willing cheer


s: With strains unbought, the shepherd's bridal day."


s: Know all men by these presents that I Robert Burns of Mossgiel:


s: whereas I intend to leave Scotland and go abroad, and having


s: press. And also, I hereby dispone and convey to him in trust for


s: Proculars, &c. In witness whereof I have wrote and signed these


s: _Aff-loof_, off-hand, extempore, without premeditation.


s: _Agley_, off the right line, wrong, awry.


s: _Airn_, iron, a tool of that metal, a mason's chisel.


s: _Airl-penny_, a silver penny given as erles or hiring money.


s: _Airt_, quarter of the heaven, point of the compass.


s: _Aizle_, a hot cinder, an ember of wood.


s: _Anent_, over-against, concerning, about.


s: _Ase_, ashes of wood, remains of a hearth fire.


s: _Asteer_, abroad, stirring in a lively manner.


s: _Aught_, possession, as "in a' my aught," in all my possession.


s: _Auld-farran'_, auld farrant, sagacious, prudent, cunning.


s: _Aumos-dish_, a beggar's dish in which the aumos is received.


s: _Backets_, ash-boards, as pieces of backet for removing ashes.


s: _Backlins_, comin', coming back, returning.


s: _Bairn-time_, a family of children, a brood.


s: _Barley-bree_, barley-broo, blood of barley, malt liquor.


s: _Baws'nt_, having a white stripe down the face.


s: _Be_, to let be, to give over, to cease.


s: _Bearded-bear_, barley with its bristly head.


s: _Beet_, _beek_, to add fuel to a fire, to bask.


s: _Belyve_, by and by, presently, quickly.


s: _Benmost-bore_, the remotest hole, the innermost recess.


s: _Bicker_, a kind of wooden dish, a short rapid race.


s: _Bickering_, careering, hurrying with quarrelsome intent.


s: _Billie_, a brother, a young fellow, a companion.


s: _Birdie-cocks_, young cocks, still belonging to the brood.


s: _Birkie_, a clever, a forward conceited fellow.


s: _Birring_, the noise of partridges when they rise.


s: _Black's the grun'_, as black as the ground.


s: _Blaud_, a flat piece of anything, to slap.


s: _Blaw_, to blow, to boast; "blaw i' my lug," to flatter.


s: _Bleerit_, bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping.


s: _Blinkin'_, smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly.


s: _Blirt and blearie_, out-burst of grief, with wet eyes.


s: _Blue-gown_, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king's


s: _Bock_, to vomit, to gush intermittently.


s: _Bodle_, a copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots.


s: _Bonnie_, or _bonny_, handsome, beautiful.


s: _Boost_, behoved, must needs, wilfulness.


s: _Bousing_, drinking, making merry with liquor.


s: _Bow-hought_, out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint.


s: _Brae_, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill.


s: _Braik_, an instrument for rough-dressing flax.


s: _Brainge_, to run rashly forward, to churn violently.


s: _Branks_, a kind of wooden curb for horses.


s: _Brawlys_, or _brawlie_, very well, finely, heartily, bravely.


s: _Breef_, an invulnerable or irresistible spell.


s: _Brent_, bright, clear; "a brent brow," a brow high and smooth.


s: _Browst_, ale, as much malt liquor as is brewed at a time.


s: _Buff and blue_, the colours of the Whigs.


s: _Bummle_, to blunder, a drone, an idle fellow.


s: _Bummler_, a blunderer, one whose noise is greater than his work.


s: _Burniewin'_, burn this wind, the blacksmith.


s: _Burr-thistle_, the thistle of Scotland.


s: _But and ben_, the country kitchen and parlour.


s: _Caird_, a tinker, a maker of horn spoons and teller of fortunes.


s: _Cairn_, a loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.


s: _Calf-ward_, a small enclosure for calves.


s: _Calimanco_, a certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.


s: _Callet_, a loose woman, a follower of a camp.


s: _Cap-stane_, cape-stone, topmost stone of the building.


s: _Car_, a rustic cart with or without wheels.


s: _Caup_, a wooden drinking vessel, a cup.


s: _Cheek for chow_, close and united, brotherly, side by side.


s: _Chimla_, or _chimlie_, a fire-grate, fire-place.


s: _Clachan_, a small village about a church, a hamlet.


s: _Clavers and havers_, agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.


s: _Clapper-claps_, the clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.


s: _Clatter_, to tell little idle stories, an idle story.


s: _Cleekin_, a brood of chickens, or ducks.


s: _Clinkin_, "clinking down," sitting down hastily.


s: _Clootie_, a familiar name for the devil.


s: _Clour_, a bump, or swelling, after a blow.


s: _Clunk_, the sound in setting down an empty bottle.


s: _Collie-shangie_, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.


s: _Cool'd in her linens_, cool'd in her death-shift.


s: _Cookit_, appeared and disappeared by fits.


s: _Coot_, the ankle, a species of water-fowl.


s: _Cotter_, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.


s: _Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.


s: _Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.


s: _Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.


s: _Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.


s: _Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.


s: _Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.


s: _Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-jingle_, rhymes, doggerel verses.


s: _Cranreuch_, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme."


s: _Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.


s: _Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.


s: _Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.


s: _Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.


s: _Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.


s: _Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.


s: _Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.


s: _Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.


s: _Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.


s: _Cutty_, short, a spoon broken in the middle.


s: _Daft_, merry, giddy, foolish; _Daft-buckie_, mad fish.


s: _Dainty_, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.


s: _Davoc_, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.


s: _Dearies_, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.


s: _Dight_, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.


s: _Ding_, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.


s: _Dirl_, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.


s: _Donsie_, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.


s: _Douse_, or _douce_, sober, wise, prudent.


s: _Doup-skelper_, one that strikes the tail.


s: _Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep.


s: _Dozen_, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.


s: _Drab_, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.


s: _Draunting_, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.


s: _Dreigh_, tedious, long about it, lingering.


s: _Drift_, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.


s: _Drone_, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.


s: _Droop rumpl't_, that droops at the crupper.


s: _Drummock_ or _Drammock_, meal and water mixed, raw.


s: _Dub_, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.


s: _Dush-dunsh_, to push, or butt as a ram.


s: _Dusht_, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.


s: _Dyvor_, bankrupt, or about to become one.


s: _Eerie_, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.


s: _Ether-stone_, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.


s: _Fa' that_, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.


s: _Faddom't_, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.


s: _Faiket_, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.


s: _Fainness_, gladness, overcome with joy.


s: _Fairin'_, fairing, a present brought from a fair.


s: _Farl_, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.


s: _Fash_, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.


s: _Faugh_, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.


s: _Fauld_, and _Fald_, a fold for sheep, to fold.


s: _Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift, contrive to live.


s: _Ferlie_ or _ferley_, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.


s: _Fey_, strange; one marked for death, predestined.


s: _Fier_, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.


s: _Fissle_, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.


s: _Fizz_, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.


s: _Flaffen_, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.


s: _Flandrekins_, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.


s: _Fleech_, to supplicate in a flattering manner.


s: _Flethrin_, _flethers_, flattering--smooth wheedling words.


s: _Flitter_, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.


s: _Flyte_, _flyting_, scold: flyting, scolding.


s: _Forfairn_, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.


s: _Forgather_, to meet, to encounter with.


s: _Foughten_, _forfoughten_, troubled, fatigued.


s: _Foul-thief_, the devil, the arch-fiend.


s: _Fouth_, plenty, enough, or more than enough.


s: _Fow_, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.


s: _Freath_, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.


s: _Fud_, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.


s: _Fu-hant_, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.


s: _Fur-ahin_, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.


s: _Fusionless_, spiritless, without sap or soul.


s: _Fyke_, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.


s: _Gab_, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.


s: _Gar_, to make, to force to; _gar't_, forced to.


s: _Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.


s: _Gaudsman_, one who drives the horses at the plough.


s: _Gawkie_, a thoughtless person, and something weak.


s: _Geck_, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.


s: _Gillie_, _gillock_, diminutive of gill.


s: _Gimmer_, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.


s: _Girdle_, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.


s: _Glaizie_, glittering, smooth, like glass.


s: _Glaumed_, grasped, snatched at eagerly.


s: _Gley_, a squint, to squint; _a-gley_, off at the side, wrong.


s: _Glib-gabbit_, that speaks smoothly and readily.


s: _Gloamin-shot_, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.


s: _Glowr_, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.


s: _Glowran_, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.


s: _Gor-cocks_, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.


s: _Gowan_, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.


s: _Goavan_, walking as if blind, or without an aim.


s: _Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.


s: _Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.


s: _Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.


s: _Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.


s: _Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.


s: _Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.


s: _Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.


s: _Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.


s: _Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.


s: _Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.


s: _Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.


s: _Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.


s: _Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house;


s: _Gumption_, discernment, knowledge, talent.


s: _Ha' Bible_, the great Bible that lies in the hall.


s: _Haddin'_, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.


s: _Haen_, had, (the participle of hae); haven.


s: _Haet_, _fient haet_, a petty oath of negation; nothing.


s: _Haffet_, the temple, the side of the head.


s: _Hafflins_, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.


s: _Hag_, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.


s: _Hain_, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.


s: _Hain'd_, spared; _hain'd gear_, hoarded money.


s: _Haivers_, nonsense, speaking without thought.


s: _Hale_, or _haill_, whole, tight, healthy.


s: _Haly_, holy; "haly-pool," holy well with healing properties.


s: _Hammered_, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.


s: _Hansel-throne_, throne when first occupied by a king.


s: _Harigals_, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.


s: _Happer_, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.


s: _Hap-step-an'-loup_, hop, step, and leap.


s: _Hash_, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.


s: _Haughs_, low-lying, rich land, valleys.


s: _Haurlin_, tearing off, pulling roughly.


s: _Havins_, good manners, decorum, good sense.


s: _Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.


s: _Hech_, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.


s: _Hee balou_, words used to soothe a child.


s: _Heels-owre-gowdie_, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.


s: _Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.


s: _Herry_, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.


s: _Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.


s: _Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.


s: _Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.


s: _Hotch'd_, turned  topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.


s: _Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.


s: _Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.


s: _Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.


s: _Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.


s: _Ingle-low_, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.


s: _Jauner_, talking, and not always to the purpose.


s: _Jaup_, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.


s: _Jaw_, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.


s: _Jimp_, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.


s: _Jink_, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.


s: _Jink an' diddle_, moving to music, motion of a fiddler's elbow.


s: Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.


s: _Jinker_, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.


s: _Jinkin'_, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.


s: _Jirt_, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.


s: _Jouk_, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.


s: _Jundie_, to justle, a push with the elbow.


s: _Kain_, fowls, &c., paid as rent by a farmer.


s: _Keckle_, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.


s: _Kiaught_, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.


s: _King's-hood_, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.


s: _Knaggie_, like knags, or points of rocks.


s: _Knowe_, a small, round hillock, a knoll.


s: _Kuittle_, to cuddle; _kuitlin_, cuddling, fondling.


s: _Kythe_, to discover, to show one's self.


s: _Lairing, lairie_, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry.


s: _Laithfu_', bashful, sheepish, abstemious.


s: _Lan'-afore_, foremost horse in the plough.


s: _Lan'-ahin_, hindmost horse in the  plough.


s: _Lane_, lone; _my lane, thy tune, &c._, myself alone.


s: _Lang_, long; to _think lang_, to long, to weary.


s: _Lave_, the rest, the remainder, the others.


s: _Leister_, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.


s: _Lightly_, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.


s: _Link_, to trip along; _linkin_, tripping along.


s: _Lint_, flax; _lint i' the bell_, flax in flower.


s: _Losh man_! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.


s: _Loun_, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.


s: _Louper-like_, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.


s: _Lowin_', flaming; _lowin-drouth_, burning desire for drink.


s: _Luggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.


s: _Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.


s: _Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.


s: _Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.


s: _Maistly_, mostly, for the greater part.


s: _Manse_, the house of the parish minister is called "the Manse."


s: _Martial chuck,_ the soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.


s: _Mask_, to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse.


s: _Mawn_, a small basket, without a handle.


s: _Melder_, a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground.


s: _Midden-hole_, a gutter at the bottom  of a dunghill.


s: _Mind't_, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.


s: _Misca_', to abuse, to call names; _misca'd_, abused.


s: _Mixtie-maxtie_, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.


s: _Moistify_, _moistified_, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.


s: _Muckle_, or _mickle_, great, big, much.


s: _Muses-stank_, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.


s: _Norland_, of or belonging to the north.


s: _Orra-duddies_, superfluous rags, old clothes.


s: _Oxtered_, carried or supported under the arm.


s: _Pack_, intimate, familiar: twelve stone of wool.


s: _Paidle, paidlen_, to walk with difficulty, as if in water.


s: _Parritch_, oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink.


s: _Pech_, to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma.


s: _Pet_, a domesticated sheep, &c., a favourite.


s: _Phraise_, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.


s: _Pickle_, a small quantity, one grain of corn.


s: _Pingle_, a small pan for warming children's sops.


s: _Plack_, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.


s: _Prig_, to cheapen, to dispute; _priggin_, cheapening.


s: _Pund, pund o' tow_, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.


s: _Pyle, a pyle, o' caff_, a single grain of chaff.


s: _Quech_, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.


s: _Quey_, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.


s: _Randie_, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.


s: _Raploch_, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.


s: _Rash_, a rush; _rash-buss_, a bush of rushes.


s: _Raucle_, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.


s: _Rede_, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.


s: _Red-wat-shod_, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.


s: _Ree_, half drunk, fuddled; _a ree yaud_, a wild horse.


s: _Reestit_, stood restive; stunted, withered.


s: _Rew_, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.


s: _Riddle_, instrument for purifying corn.


s: _Rin_, to run, to melt; _rinnin'_, running.


s: _Rink_, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.


s: _Ripplin-kame_, instrument  for dressing flax.


s: _Riskit_, a noise like the tearing of roots.


s: sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called "rockings."


s: _Rood_, stands likewise for the plural, roods.


s: _Roon_, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.


s: _Roun'_, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.


s: _Row_, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.


s: _Runt_, the stem of colewort or cabbage.


s: _Ruth_, a woman's name, the book so called, sorrow.


s: _Sair_, to serve, a sore; _sairie_, sorrowful.


s: _Scraich_ and _Scriegh_, to scream, as a hen or partridge.


s: _Screed_, to tear, a rent; _screeding_, tearing.


s: _Scrieve, scrieven,_ to glide softly, gleesomely along.


s: _Scroggie_, covered with underwood, bushy.


s: _Sel_, self; _a body's sel'_, one's self alone.


s: _Shaw_, to show; a small wood in a hollow place.


s: _Sherra-muir_, Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715.


s: _Shiel, shealing_, a shepherd's cottage.


s: _Shog_, a shock, a push off at one side.


s: _Shot_, one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.


s: _Silken-snood_, a fillet of silk, a token of virginity.


s: _Skelpi-limmer_, a technical term in female scolding.


s: _Sklent_, slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.


s: _Sklented_, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.


s: _Skreigh_, a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.


s: _Skyte_, a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.


s: _Skyrin_, party-coloured, the checks of the tartan.


s: _Slype_, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough.


s: _Slypet-o'er_, fell over with a slow reluctant motion.


s: _Smeddum_, dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.


s: _Smoor, smoored_, to smother, smothered.


s: _Smoutie_, smutty, obscene; _smoutie phiz_, sooty aspect.


s: _Smytrie_, a numerous collection of small individuals.


s: _Snash_, abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.


s: _Snell_ and _snelly_, bitter, biting; _snellest_, bitterest.


s: _Snoove_, to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.


s: _Snowk, snowkit_, to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.


s: _Sonsie_, having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.


s: _Souk_, to suck, to drink long and enduringly.


s: _Sowp_, a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.


s: _Sowth_, to try over a tune with a low whistle.


s: _Spairge_, to clash, to soil, as with mire.


s: _Speat_, a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw.


s: _Spence_, the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage.


s: _Spier_, to ask, to inquire; _spiert_, inquired.


s: _Spinnin-graith_, wheel and roke and lint.


s: _Spring_, a quick air in music, a Scottish reel.


s: _Squatter_, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c.


s: _Squattle_, to sprawl in the act of hiding.


s: _Squeel_, a scream, a screech, to scream.


s: _Stank_, did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water.


s: _Startle_, to run as cattle stung by the gadfly.


s: _Sten_, to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly.


s: _Stimpart_, the eighth part of a Winchester bushel.


s: _Stockin'_, stocking; _throwing the stockin'_, when the bride and


s: at random among the company, and the person whom it falls


s: _Stook, stooked_, a shock of corn, made into shocks.


s: _Strae_, straw; _to die a fair strae death_, to die in bed.


s: _Straik_, to stroke; _straiket_, stroked.


s: _Stumpie_, diminutive of stump; a grub pen.


s: _Sugh_, the continued rushing noise of wind or water.


s: _Sumph_, a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.


s: _Suthron_, Southern, an old name of the English.


s: _Swankie_, or _swanker_, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.


s: _Swats_, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.


s: _Sweer_, lazy, averse; _dead-sweer_, extremely averse.


s: _Swirl_, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.


s: _Tackets_, broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.


s: _Tae_, a toe, _three-taed_, having three prongs.


s: _Targe, targe them tightly_, cross-question them severely.


s: _Taupie_, a foolish, thoughtless young person.


s: _Tauted_, or _tautie_, matted together (spoken of hair and wool).


s: _Tent_, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.


s: _Thack_, thatch; _thack an' rape_, clothing and necessaries.


s: _Thigger_, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.


s: _Thraw_, to sprain, to twist, to contradict.


s: _Thrawn_, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.


s: _Threap_, to maintain by dint of assertion.


s: _Threshin'_, threshing; _threshin'-tree_, a flail.


s: _Throuther_, pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither).


s: _Thud_, to make a loud intermittent noise.


s: _Tirl_, to make a slight noise, to uncover.


s: _Tocher_, marriage portion; _tocher bands_, marriage bonds.


s: _Tod_, a fox. _"Tod i' the fauld,"_ fox in the fold.


s: _Tosie_, warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.


s: _Touzles_, _touzling_, romping, ruffling the clothes.


s: _Toy_, a very old fashion of female head-dress.


s: _Trams_, _barrow-trams_, the handles of a barrow.


s: _Trimly_, cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner.


s: _Trinle_, _trintle_, the wheel of a barrow, to roll.


s: _Trysts_, appointments, love meetings, cattle shows.


s: _Tumbler-wheels_, wheels of a kind of low cart.


s: _Tug_ or _tow_, either in leather or rope.


s: _Tulzie_, a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight.


s: _Twistle_, twisting, the art of making a rope.


s: _Unback'd filly_, a young mare hitherto unsaddled.


s: _Unco_, strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious.


s: _Unsicker_, uncertain, wavering, insecure.


s: _Vauntie_, joyous, delight which cannot contain itself.


s: _Wadset_, land on which money is lent, a mortgage.


s: _Wae_, woe; _waefu'_, sorrowful, wailing.


s: _Waesucks! Wae's me!_, Alas! O the pity!


s: _Waifs an' crocks_, stray sheep and old ewes past breeding.


s: _Walie_, ample, large, jolly, also an exclamation of distress.


s: _Wanrest_, _wanrestfu'_, restless, unrestful.


s: _Warly_, worldly, eager in amassing wealth.


s: _Wat_, a man's upper dress; a sort of mantle.


s: _Waukit_, thickened as fullers do cloth.


s: _Weary-widdle_, toilsome contest of life.


s: _Weaven' the stocking_, to knit stockings.


s: _Weeder-clips_, instrument for removing weeds.


s: _Whang_, a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c.


s: _Wheep_, to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer.


s: _Whid_, the motion of a hare running but not frightened.--a lie.


s: _Whigmeleeries_, whims, fancies, crotchets.


s: _Whingin'_, crying, complaining, fretting.


s: _Whirligigums_, useless ornaments, trifling appendages.


s: _Whisht_, silence; _to hold one's whisht_, to be silent.


s: _Whiskin' beard_, a beard like the whiskers of a cat.


s: _Whiskit_, lashed, the motion of a horse's tail removing flies.


s: _Widdifu_, twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging.


s: _Wifie-wifikie_, a diminutive or endearing name for wife.


s: _Willyart-glower_, a bewildered dismayed stare.


s: _Wimple-womplet_, to meander, meandered, to enfold.


s: _Winnin'-thread_, putting thread into hanks.


s: _Wintle_, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel.


s: _Wonner_, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation.


s: _Widdie_, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows.


s: _Ye_, this pronoun is frequently used for thou.


s: _Yealings_, born in the same year, coevals.


s: _Year_, is used both for singular and plural, years.


s: What though we befriendit young Charlie?--


s: Now for George we 'll encounter the devil,


s: Far over yon hills of the heather sae green,


s: An' down by the corrie that sings to the sea,


s: The bonny young Flora sat sighing her lane,


s: The dew on her plaid, and the tear in her e'e.


s: She look'd at a boat wi' the breezes that swung,


s: Away on the wave, like a bird of the main;


s: An' aye as it lessen'd she sigh'd and she sung,


s: Fareweel to the lad I shall ne'er see again!


s: Fareweel to my hero, the gallant and young,


s: The moorcock that craws on the brows of Ben-Connal,


s: He kens of his bed in a sweet mossy hame;


s: The eagle that soars o'er the cliffs of Clan-Ronald,


s: Unawed and unhunted his eyrie can claim;


s: The solan can sleep on the shelve of the shore,


s: The cormorant roost on his rock of the sea,


s: But, ah! there is one whose hard fate I deplore,


s: Nor house, ha', nor hame in his country has he:


s: The conflict is past, and our name is no more--


s: There 's nought left but sorrow for Scotland and me!


s: The target is torn from the arm of the just,


s: The helmet is cleft on the brow of the brave,


s: The claymore for ever in darkness must rust,


s: But red is the sword of the stranger and slave;


s: The hoof of the horse, and the foot of the proud,


s: Have trod o'er the plumes on the bonnet of blue,


s: Why slept the red bolt in the breast of the cloud,


s: When tyranny revell'd in blood of the true?


s: Fareweel, my young hero, the gallant and good!


s: The crown of thy fathers is torn from thy brow!


s: Was composed to an air handed me by the late lamented Neil Gow,


s: Down by the Tummel or banks o' the Garry,


s: Saw ye our lads wi' their bonnets and white cockades,


s: Leaving their mountains to follow Prince Charlie?


s: Follow thee! follow thee! wha wadna follow thee?


s: Lang hast thou loved and trusted us fairly!


s: Charlie, Charlie, wha wadna follow thee,


s: King o' the Highland hearts, bonnie Prince Charlie?


s: I hae but ae son, my gallant young Donald;


s: But if I had ten they should follow Glengarry!


s: Health to M'Donnell and gallant Clan-Ronald--


s: For these are the men that will die for their Charlie!


s: I 'll to Lochiel and Appin, and kneel to them,


s: Brave M'Intosh, he shall fly to the field with them,


s: These are the lads I can trust wi' my Charlie!


s: Down through the Lowlands, down wi' the Whigamore!


s: Loyal true Highlanders, down wi' them rarely!


s: Ronald and Donald, drive on, wi' the broad claymore,


s: Over the necks o' the foes o' Prince Charlie!


s: Long hast thou loved and trusted us fairly!


s: King o' the Highland hearts, bonny Prince Charlie?


s: Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea!


s: Love gives it energy, love gave it birth.


s: Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.


s: O'er the red streamer that heralds the day,


s: Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be!


s: Caledonia! thou land of the mountain and rock,


s: Thou land of the torrent, the pine, and the oak,


s: Though bare are thy cliffs, and though barren thy glens,


s: Yet kind are the hearts, and undaunted the clans,


s: Firm seat of religion, of valour, of truth,


s: The Muses have left all the vales of the south,


s: Sweet land of the bay and the wild-winding deeps,


s: While far in the depth of the blue water sleeps,


s: Thou land of the valley, the moor, and the hill,


s: Of the storm, and the proud-rolling wave--


s: Yes, thou art the land of fair liberty still,


s: An appropriate air has just been composed for this song by Mr


s: O, my lassie, our joy to complete again,


s: Meet me again i' the gloamin', my dearie;


s: Low down in the dell let us meet again--


s: O, Jeanie, there 's naething to fear ye!


s: Come, when the wee bat flits silent and eiry,


s: Come, when the pale face o' Nature looks weary;


s: Sweetly blaw the haw an' the rowan tree,


s: Wild roses speck our thicket sae breery;


s: Still, still will our walk in the greenwood be--


s: List when the blackbird o' singing grows weary,


s: List when the beetle-bee's bugle comes near ye,


s: Beauty an' truth, they darena come near it;


s: 'Tis love maks the sang o' the woodland sae cheery,


s: Love gars a' Nature look bonny that 's near ye;


s: AIR--_"Shame fa' the gear and the blathrie o't."_


s: They hae plagued my heart, an' pleased my e'e,


s: I hae thought an' thought, but darena tell,


s: An' smiles as soft as the young rose-bud,


s: Their point they 've carried right or wrang,


s: The air of this song is my own. It was first set to music by


s: 'Tis ready, a troop of our bold Highlandmen,


s: I versified this song at Meggernie Castle, in Glen-Lyon, from a


s: Has pierced me through an' through the heart,


s: An' sae is the milk-white flower o' the haw,


s: The daisy's wee freenge is sweet on the lea,


s: But the bud of the rose is the bonniest of a'."


s: "Now, wae light on a' your flow'ry chat,


s: And the wily blink frae the dark-blue e'e


s: Of a dear, dear lassie that they ca' Bess."


s: Though ye canna come every night to woo;


s: "Then, dear, dear Bessie, you shall be mine,


s: Wi' Bessie, my ain for good an' for a'!"


s: O, saw ye this sweet bonny lassie o' mine,


s: Or saw ye the smile on her cheek sae divine;


s: Or saw ye the kind love that speaks in her e'e?


s: It 's no that she dances sae light on the green,


s: It 's no the simplicity mark'd in her mien;


s: But O, it 's the kind love that speaks in her e'e,


s: To meet her alane 'mang the green leafy trees,


s: When naebody kens, an' when naebody sees;


s: To breathe out the soul of a saft melting kiss--


s: On earth here there 's naething is equal to this!


s: I have felt every bliss which the soul can enjoy,


s: When friends circled round me, and nought to annoy;


s: I have felt every joy that illumines the breast,


s: When the full flowing bowl is most warmly caress'd:


s: But O, there 's a sweet and a heavenly charm


s: In life's early day, when the bosom is warm;


s: When soul meets wi' soul in a saft melting kiss--


s: On earth sure there 's naething is equal to this!


s: May flow'rets spring an' wild birds sing


s: An' the sweet blinks o' love there sae bonny,


s: She turn'd her around an' said, smiling,


s: While the tear in her blue e'e shone clear,


s: "You 're welcome, kind sir, to your mailing,


s: There 's joy in the bright blooming feature,


s: But there 's a delight will ne'er perish,


s: Lock the door, Lariston, lion of Liddisdale,


s: Lock the door, Lariston, Lowther comes on,


s: The Castletown's burning, and Oliver's gone;


s: Lock the door, Lariston,--high on the weather gleam,


s: See how the Saxon plumes bob on the sky,


s: Fierce is the foray, and far is the cry.


s: Bewcastle brandishes high his broad scimitar,


s: Lock the door, Lariston, hold them at bay.


s: Why dost thou smile, noble Elliot of Lariston?


s: Why do the joy-candles gleam in thine eye?


s: Thy foes are relentless, determined, and nigh.


s: Jock Elliot raised up his steel bonnet and lookit,


s: His hand grasp'd the sword with a nervous embrace;


s: More gallant to meet in the foray or chase!


s: Little know you of the hearts I have hidden here,


s: Little know you of our moss-troopers' might,


s: Here at the Breaken Tower end shall the fray."


s: Scowl'd the broad sun o'er the links of green Liddisdale,


s: Red as the beacon-light tipp'd he the wold;


s: Shrill was the bugle's note, dreadful the warrior shout,


s: Lances and halberts in splinters were borne;


s: Buckler and armlet in shivers were shorn.


s: See how they wane, the proud files of the Windermere,


s: Howard--ah! woe to thy hopes of the day!


s: Wi' the raptured kiss an' the happy smile,


s: An' the wild embrace, an' the gleesome face


s: There 's naebody kens, there 's naebody kens,


s: O'er Scotia's hills, o'er firth an' fell,


s: grossness,--the simplicity elegant, and the naïveté scarcely


s: Where flocks do feed, and herds do stray,


s: She turns her head, and thraws her cheek,


s: But, whisht, nae mair o' this we 'll speak,


s: And can, with conscience clear, declare,


s: I 'm fley'd they'll gar me tyne my glee,


s: I 'll be content, though legs should fail,


s: And screw its strings whilst they can stand,


s: In the Author's MS., the following sentences occur prefatory to


s: this song:--"Everybody knows Neil Gow. When he was poorly, the


s: physicians forbade him to drink his favourite liquor. The words


s: A beverage composed of honey dissolved in whisky.


s: following, are printed for the first time.


s: And their host took care they should richly fare


s: But they sat too late, and mistook the gate,


s: O, 'twas merry in the hall, when the beards wagg'd all;


s: But he dropt his switch, though there was no ditch,


s: So his wife took care of this nice affair,


s: For the knight was gone, nor the owner known,


s: So she ne'er will part with this switch so smart,


s: Till the knight appear, it must just lie here,


s: This lay of affection is dated September 1820, when the author


s: Mr Lochore devoted much of his time to private study. He was


s: particularly fond of poetical composition, and wrote verses with


s: I 've bills an' bonds on lairds an' lands,


s: Oh! stop, quo' Kate, I 'm yours, I 'll try


s: Tam 's twenty-five, hauds James's pleugh,


s: Then aunt, wha spun, laid down her roke,


s: Tam 's like yoursel', the bargain strike,


s: Ye swains wha are touch'd wi' saft sympathy's feelin',


s: For victims wha 're doom'd sair affliction to dree,


s: If a heart-broken lover, despairin' an' wailin',


s: Like you I was blest with content, an' was cheerie,--


s: My pipe wont to play to the cantiest glee,


s: When smilin' an' kind was my Mary, sweet Mary,


s: While Mary was guileless, an' faithfu' to me.


s: She promised, she vow'd, she wad be my half-marrow,


s: The day too was set, when our bridal should be;


s: How happy was I, but I tell you wi' sorrow,


s: She 's perjured hersel', ah! an' ruined me.


s: For Ned o' Shawneuk, wi' the charms o' his riches,


s: An' sly winnin' tales, tauld sae pawky an' slee,


s: Her han' has obtain'd, an' clad her like a duchess,


s: Sae baith skaith an' scorn ha'e come down upon me.


s: Ye braes ance enchantin', o' you I 'm now wearie,


s: An' thou, ance dear haunt, 'neath the aul' thornie tree,


s: Where in rapture I sat an' dawtit fause Mary,


s: Fareweel! ye 'll never be seen mair by me.


s: Awa' as a pilgrim, far distant I 'll wander,


s: 'Mang faces unkent, till the day that I dee.


s: Ye shepherds, adieu! but tell Mary to ponder,


s: To think on her vows, an' to think upon me.


s: This song is here printed for the first time.


s: Then rear your head, and glowr, and stare,


s: miscellanies, the _British Chronicle_ newspaper, and _The Bee_,


s: published by Dr Anderson. In his 26th year, he became clerk to a


s: Though confined to his wheel-chair for a period of ten years, and


s: An' dark the Dee 'mang Highland heather,


s: 'Tis sweet to scent the primrose springin';


s: Or through the woodlands green to stray,


s: There 's love an' truth in ilka feature;


s: Her purse-proud daddy 's dour an' saucy;


s: The sna'-white flower that scents the thorn,


s: When, fondly sighing, thou wouldst smile;


s: Though gear was scant, an' friends were few,


s: silk-weaver, in Paisley, which he early relinquished for the less


s: "Amidst George Macindoe's songs are two distinguished


s: by more clearness and less vulgarity than the rest. One


s: of these, called 'The Burn Trout,' was composed on a


s: real incident which it describes, namely, a supper,


s: where the chief dish was a salmon, brought from Peebles


s: to Glasgow by my father, who, when learning his


s: business, as a manufacturer, in the western city, about


s: the end of the century, had formed an acquaintance with


s: the poet. The other, entitled 'Cheese and Whisky,'


s: which contains some very droll verses, was written in


s: compliment to my maternal uncle, William Gibson, then


s: also a young manufacturer, but who died about two


s: months ago, a retired captain of the 90th regiment. The


s: jocund hospitable disposition of Gibson--'Bachelor


s: Willie'--and my father's social good-nature, are


s: pleasingly recalled to me by Macindoe's verses, rough


s: Mr James Chambers, of Peebles, who died in 1824.


s: TUNE--_"The gude forgi' me for leein'."_


s: Believe me or doubt me, I dinna care whilk,


s: I feast upon whisky, and cheese o' ewe milk,


s: And ne'er was choked for leeing, for leeing,


s: Your jams and your jellies, your sugars and teas,


s: Compared wi' gude whisky, and kebbocks o' cheese,


s: May I sup porridge for leeing, for leeing,


s: When patfou's o' kale, thick wi' barley and pease,


s: As stoupfou's o' whisky, and platefou's o' cheese,


s: I 'll dree to be scrimpit for leeing, for leeing,


s: Tho' the house where we 're sittin' were a' in a bleeze,


s: But would guzzle the whisky, and rive at the cheese;


s: Perhaps ye may think that I 'm leeing, I 'm leeing,


s: Brither Jamie cam west, wi' a braw burn trout,


s: An' speer'd how acquaintance were greeing;


s: He brought it frae Peebles, tied up in a clout,


s: An' said it wad just be a preeing, a preeing,


s: In the burn that rins by his grandmother's door


s: Ae night fell asleep a wee piece frae the shore,


s: An' was kill'd wi' a stane by the miller, the miller,


s: An' was kill'd wi' a stane by the miller.


s: This trout it was gutted an' dried on a nail


s: Weel rubbed wi' saut, frae the head to the tail,


s: An' kipper'd as 't had been a sa'mon, a sa'mon,


s: This trout it was boil'd an' set ben on a plate,


s: The banes and the tail, they were gi'en to the cat,


s: But we lickit our lips at the rest o't, the rest o't,


s: When this trout it was eaten, we were a' like to rive,


s: May ilk trout in the burn grow muckle an' thrive,


s: An' Jamie bring west aye a preeing, a preeing,


s: Her flocks an' herds crown a' her hills;


s: Her plains, as stars the sky, bespangle.


s: Hark! Thrift, her wheel an' loom are usin';


s: Whase heart wi' virt'ous love is glowin'.


s: In war, they 're loyal, bauld, an' wild,


s: A song of this title was composed by Robert Fergusson.


s: Mr James Bowie, of Paisley, to whom we are under obligations for


s: Though the winter of age wreathes her snow on his head,


s: And the blooming effulgence of summer has fled,


s: Though the voice, that was sweet as the harp's softest string,


s: Be trem'lous, and low as the zephyrs of spring,


s: Attracts not the gaze of inquisitive eyes;


s: Yet the gem that 's within may be lovely and bright


s: As the smiles of the morn, or the stars of the night;


s: When the tapers burn clear, and the goblet shines bright,


s: In the hall of his chief, on a festival night,


s: I have smiled at the glance of his rapturous eye,


s: While the brim of the goblet laugh'd back in reply;


s: When he sings of the valorous deeds that were done,


s: By his clan or his chief, in the days that are gone,


s: His strains then are various--now rapid, now slow,


s: As he mourns for the dead or exults o'er the foe;


s: When summer in gaudy profusion is dress'd,


s: And the dew-drop hangs clear on the violet's breast,


s: I list with delight to his rapturous strain,


s: While the borrowing echo returns it again;


s: But not summer's profusion alone can inspire


s: His soul in the song, or his hand on the lyre,


s: But rapid his numbers and wilder they flow,


s: When the wintry winds rave o'er his mountains of snow;


s: I have seen him elate when the black clouds were riven,


s: Terrific and wild, by the thunder of heaven,


s: And smile at the billows that angrily rave,


s: Incessant and deep o'er the mariner's grave;


s: When the eye that expresses the warmth of his heart,


s: Shall fail the benevolent wish to impart--


s: When his blood shall be cold as the wintry wave,


s: And silent his harp as the gloom of the grave,


s: "Maria, now the maid of heavenly charms,


s: Decreed to bliss the youthful monarch's arms;


s: With restless heat, the cause he scarcely knows;


s: His late delight, no more his care engage;


s: No more he wills to give his steed the reins


s: In eager chase, and urge him o'er the plains;


s: No more he joys to bend the twanging bow,


s: To hurl the javeline, or the dart to throw;


s: His alter'd thoughts to other objects rove,


s: How oft, expressive of the inward smart,


s: Did groans convulsive issue from his heart!


s: How oft did blushes own the sacred flame,


s: How oft his hand unbidden wrote her name!


s: Now presents worthy of the plighted fair,


s: And nuptial robes his busy train prepare--


s: Robes wherewith Livia was herself attired,


s: And those bright dames that to the beds aspired


s: To give her faultless form a single grace,


s: Or add one charm to her bewitching face."


s: fellow-students for a halfpenny each. So Paul sometimes told his


s: plaintive) send me some verses consolatory to a hermit; for my


s: When daisies deck'd the breast of spring,


s: On Stinshar's banks, while wild-woods grow,


s: elementary branches, he became apprenticed to a cotton-weaver.


s: bookselling firm of Constable & Co. The failure of both these


s: The visit of the Ettrick Bard proved only an interlude amidst the


s: Tannahill was believed never to have entertained particular


s: The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond,


s: And left the red clouds to preside o'er the scene,


s: While lanely I stray in the calm simmer gloamin'


s: How sweet is the brier, wi' its saft faulding blossom,


s: And sweet is the birk, wi' its mantle o' green;


s: Yet sweeter and fairer, and dear to this bosom,


s: She's modest as ony, and blithe as she 's bonny;


s: For guileless simplicity marks her its ain;


s: And far be the villain, divested of feeling,


s: Sing on, thou sweet mavis, thy hymn to the e'ening,


s: Thou 'rt dear to the echoes of Calderwood glen;


s: Sae dear to this bosom, sae artless and winning,


s: How lost were my days till I met wi' my Jessie,


s: The sports o' the city seem'd foolish and vain;


s: I ne'er saw a nymph I would ca' my dear lassie,


s: Though mine were the station o' loftiest grandeur,


s: Amidst its profusion I 'd languish in pain;


s: And reckon as naething the height o' its splendour,


s: AIR--_"Lord Moira's Welcome to Scotland."_


s: As blithe 's yon lightsome lamb that plays


s: Tannahill wrote this song in honour of the Earl of Moira,


s: We 'll meet beside the dusky glen, on yon burn side,


s: Where the bushes form a cosie den, on yon burn side;


s: Yet we 'll meet--we 'll meet at e'en down by yon burn side.


s: I 'll lead you to the birken bower, on yon burn side,


s: Sae sweetly wove wi' woodbine flower, on yon burn side;


s: While in ither's arms they lie, down by yon burn side,


s: Awa', ye rude, unfeeling crew, frae yon burn side,


s: Those fairy scenes are no for you, by yon burn side;


s: And the rock-lodged echoes skim, down by yon burn side.


s: Now the plantin' taps are tinged wi' goud, on yon burn side,


s: And gloamin' draws her foggy shroud o'er yon burn side;


s: There we 'll meet, my ain dear Jean, down by yon burn side.


s: "There 's mony a dainty cabbage-stock in our kail-yard,


s: There 's mony a dainty cabbage-stock in our kail-yard,


s: Yet there 's mony a dainty cabbage-stock in our kail-yard."


s: Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' Gleniffer,


s: The auld castle's turrets are cover'd wi' snaw;


s: How changed frae the time when I met wi' my lover,


s: Amang the broom bushes by Stanley-green shaw:


s: The wild flowers o' summer were spread a' sae bonnie,


s: The mavis sang sweet frae the green birken tree;


s: But far to the camp they hae march'd my dear Johnnie,


s: Then ilk thing around us was blythesome and cheery,


s: Then ilk thing around us was bonny and braw;


s: Now naething is heard but the wind whistling dreary,


s: And naething is seen but the wide-spreading snaw.


s: The trees are a' bare, and the birds mute and dowie,


s: They shake the cauld drift frae their wings as they flee,


s: And chirp out their plaints, seeming wae for my Johnnie,


s: 'Tis winter wi' them, and 'tis winter wi' me.


s: Yon cauld sleety cloud skiffs alang the bleak mountain,


s: And shakes the dark firs on the stey rocky brae;


s: While down the deep glen bawls the snaw-flooded fountain,


s: That murmur'd sae sweet to my laddie and me.


s: 'Tis no its loud roar on the wintry winds swellin',


s: 'Tis no the cauld blast brings the tears i' my e'e,


s: For, O, gin I saw but my bonny Scots callan',


s: The dark days o' winter were summer to me!


s: Wi' jealous spite, to keep me frae thee,


s: The watch-dog's howling loads the blast,


s: With a' his storms, to keep me frae thee,


s: The ruin of Crockston Castle is situated on the brow of a gentle


s: A clerical friend has communicated to us the following stanza,


s: Where waving woods, and spreading flowers,


s: Blithe was the time when he fee'd wi' my father, O!


s: Happy were the days when we herded thegither, O!


s: Sweet were the hours when he row'd me in his plaidie, O!


s: And vow'd to be mine, my dear Highland laddie, O!


s: But, ah! waes me! wi' their sodgering sae gaudy, O!


s: The laird's wys'd awa my braw Highland laddie, O!


s: Misty are the glens, and the dark hills sae cloudy, O!


s: That aye seem'd sae blythe wi' my dear Highland laddie, O!


s: The blaeberry banks now are lonesome and dreary, O!


s: Muddy are the streams that gush'd down sae clearly, O!


s: Silent are the rocks that echoed sae gladly, O!


s: The wild melting strains o' my dear Highland laddie, O!


s: He pu'd me the crawberry, ripe frae the boggy fen:


s: He pu'd me the strawberry, red frae the foggy glen;


s: He pu'd me the row'n frae the wild steeps sae giddy, O!


s: Sae loving and kind was my dear Highland laddie, O!


s: Fareweel, my ewes, and fareweel, my doggie, O!


s: Fareweel, ye knowes, now sae cheerless and scroggie, O!


s: Fareweel, Glenfeoch, my mammy and my daddie, O!


s: I will leave you a' for my dear Highland laddie, O!


s: The redbreast pours his sweetest strains,


s: 'Tis haena ye heard, man, o' Barrochan Jean?


s: And haena ye heard, man, o' Barrochan Jean?


s: How death and starvation came o'er the hail nation,


s: She wrought sic mischief wi' her twa pawky e'en.


s: The lads and the lasses were deeing in dizzins,


s: The tane kill'd wi' love and the tither wi' spleen;


s: The ploughing, the sawing, the shearing, the mawing,


s: A' wark was forgotten for Barrochan Jean!


s: Frae the south and the north, o'er the Tweed and the Forth,


s: Sic coming and ganging there never was seen;


s: The comers were cheerie, the gangers were blearie,


s: Despairing or hoping for Barrochan Jean!


s: The carlines at hame were a' girning and graning,


s: The bairns were a' greeting frae morning till e'en;


s: They gat naething for crowdy, but runts boil'd to sowdie,


s: For naething gat growing for Barrochan Jean!


s: The doctors declared it was past their descriving,


s: The ministers said 'twas a judgment for sin;


s: But they lookit sae blae, and their hearts were sae wae,


s: I was sure they were deeing for Barrochan Jean!


s: The burns on road-sides were a' dry wi' their drinking,


s: Yet a' wadna slockin' the drouth i' their skin;


s: E'en the winds were a' sighing, "Sweet Barrochan Jean!"


s: The timmer ran done wi' the making o' coffins,


s: Kirkyards o' their sward were a' howkit fu' clean;


s: Dead lovers were packit like herring in barrels,


s: Sic thousands were deeing for Barrochan Jean!


s: But mony braw thanks to the Laird o' Glen Brodie,


s: The grass owre their graffs is now bonnie and green,


s: He sta' the proud heart of our wanton young lady,


s: And spoil'd a' the charm o' her twa pawky e'en.


s: Writing to his friend Barr, on the 24th December 1809, Tannahill


s: I 'll screen thee wi' my Highland plaid.


s: Frae Nature's hand, are strew'd on thee.


s: Though Fate should drag me south the line,


s: Craigie Lea is situated to the north-west of Paisley.


s: AIR--_"Good night, and joy be wi' you a'."_


s: The drums they beat, the fifes they play,--


s: Good night, and joy--good night, and joy,


s: Though bleak and drear thy mountains be,


s: separately, and commanded a wide circulation. In 1809, Dr Duncan


s: As a man of science, the name of Dr Duncan is associated with the


s: How stands the game? Its eight and eight,


s: On the green sward lay William, in anguish extended,


s: To soothe and to cheer him his Mary stood near him;


s: But despair in the cup of his sorrows was blended,


s: And, inwardly groaning, he wildly exclaim'd--


s: "Ah! look not so fondly, thou peerless in beauty,


s: Away, I beseech thee, no comfort can reach me;


s: My pleasure is sorrow, my hope is despair.


s: "Once the visions of fancy shone bright and attractive,


s: Like distant scenes blooming which sunbeams illumine;


s: Love pointed to wealth, and, no longer inactive,


s: I labour'd till midnight, and rose with the dawn.


s: "But the day-dreams of pleasure have fled me for ever,


s: Misfortune surrounds me, oppression confounds me;


s: No hope to support, and no friend to deliver,


s: Poor and wretched, alas! I must ever remain.


s: "And thou, my soul's treasure, whilst pitying my anguish,


s: New poison does mix in my cup of affliction,


s: For honour forbids (though without thee I languish)


s: To make thee a partner of sorrow and want."


s: "Dear William," she cried, "I 'll no longer deceive thee,


s: I honour thy merit, I love thy proud spirit;


s: Too well thou art tried, and if wealth can relieve thee,


s: My portion is ample--that portion is thine."


s: TUNE--_"Blythe, Blythe and Merry was she."_


s: More lovely far such such scenes of bliss


s: Thou ken'st, Mary Hay, that I loe thee weel,


s: Then what gars thee stand wi' the tear in thine e'e,


s: And look aye sae wae, when thou look'st at me?


s: Dost thou miss, Mary Hay, the saft bloom o' my cheek,


s: And the hair curling round it, sae gentie and sleek?


s: For the snaw 's on my head, and the roses are gane,


s: Since that day o' days I first ca'd thee my ain.


s: But though, Mary Hay, my auld e'en be grown dim,


s: An age, wi' its frost, maks cauld every limb,


s: My heart, thou kens weel, has nae cauldness for thee,


s: For simmer returns at the blink o' thine e'e.


s: The miser hauds firmer and firmer his gold,


s: The ivy sticks close to the tree, when its old,


s: And still thou grows't dearer to me, Mary Hay,


s: As a' else turns eerie, and life wears away.


s: We maun part, Mary Hay, when our journey is done,


s: But I 'll meet thee again in the bricht world aboon,


s: And look aye sae wae when thou look'st at me?


s: In his more advanced years, Allan, who was naturally of good and


s: Robert Allan is entitled to an honourable position as a writer of


s: We have to acknowledge our obligations to Mr John Macgregor, of


s: I 'll twine wi' the flowers o' the mountain,


s: Then come o'er the burn, my sweet Betty,


s: While straying was the moon's pale beam;


s: The flowers that kiss the wimplin' burn,


s: I 'll woo their sweets, e'en for thy sake,


s: The flow'rs are fair and the leaves are green;


s: And the rose is sweet in the dew at e'en.


s: Birds are singing fu' blythe and cheery,


s: In yonder glen there 's naething to fear ye,


s: The harp's wild strain was past and gone,


s: An' there, wi' blythe and lightsome heart,


s: For now 's the time, and the hour of need!


s: Nor Scotland's queen be a warder's mark!


s: Yon light that plays round the castle's moat


s: For now is the time, and the hour of need!


s: Those pond'rous keys shall the kelpies keep,


s: And lodge in their caverns dark and deep;


s: While Scotland has hands and hearts so bold;


s: Then, steersmen, steersmen, on with speed,


s: And the warder's voice hath treason sung;


s: Let town, and hall, and battlements gleam,


s: We steer by the light of the tapers' beam;


s: Now, now is the time, and the hour of need!


s: The keys here alluded to were, at a recent period, found in the


s: AIR--_"The bonnie Mill-dams o' Balgonie."_


s: "It 's late, it 's late," quoth Ellenore,


s: She heard the cock flap his siller wing,


s: But there was a page, a little fause page,


s: "It is na for thee, but thine, Lord Ronald,


s: But since the hind has come to my faul',


s: But the baron watch'd, as he raised the latch,


s: The life-blood fled frae fair Ellenore's cheek,


s: She lean'd her down by Lord Ronald's side,


s: She was lovelier far, an' fairer to see,


s: Oh, whare do ye wend, my sweet winsome doo?


s: But her heart, I trow, was liken to break,


s: I haena a hame, quo' the bonnie lassie--


s: I ween'd she might be the fairies' queen


s: And the tear that dimm'd her bonnie blue e'e


s: Can the winter's rain an' the winter's wind


s: Whate'er be your kith, whate'er be your kin,


s: An' drink, sweet doo, young Charlie's health,


s: And aye they twined the mystic thread,--


s: But the martyr's grave will rise, lassie,


s: An' the martyr soun' will sleep, lassie,


s: Hearts still bound by true love's chain.


s: Where grove and glade, and light and shade,


s: Researches," and he left numerous MSS. on subjects connected with


s: pertinacity. His voice was extremely dissonant, but, seemingly


s: Thomas Campbell was one of Leyden's early literary friends; they


s: approbation.'"--_Lockhart's Life of Scott._


s: Thou seem'st to smile with softer gleam,


s: Thine is the breeze that, murmuring bland


s: That rapture's tears are mix'd with pain,


s: Oh! the breeze of the mountain is soothing and sweet,


s: Warm breathing of love, and the friends we shall meet;


s: And the rocks of the desert, so rough when we roam,


s: Seem soft, soft as silk, on the dear path of home;


s: The white waves of the Jeikon, that foam through their speed,


s: Seem scarcely to reach to the girth of my steed.


s: Rejoice, O Bokhara, and flourish for aye!


s: Thy King comes to meet thee, and long shall he stay.


s: Our King is our moon, and Bokhara our skies,


s: Where soon that fair light of the heavens shall arise--


s: Bokhara our orchard, the cypress our king,


s: In Bokhara's fair orchard soon destined to spring.


s: I warn you, fair maidens, to wail and to sigh,


s: For Rama, our Rama, to greenwood must fly;


s: Then hasten, come hasten, to see his array,


s: Ayud'hya is dark when our chief goes away.


s: All the people are flocking to see him pass by;


s: They are silent and sad, with the tear in their eye:


s: From the fish in the streamlets a broken sigh heaves,


s: And the birds of the forest lament from the leaves.


s: His fine locks are matted, no raiment has he


s: For the wood, save a girdle of bark from the tree;


s: And of all his gay splendour, you nought may behold,


s: Save his bow and his quiver, and ear-rings of gold.


s: Oh! we thought to have seen him in royal array


s: Before his proud squadrons his banners display,


s: And the voice of the people exulting to own


s: Their sovereign assuming the purple and crown;


s: But the time has gone by, my hope is despair,--


s: One maiden perfidious has wrought all my care.


s: Our light is departing, and darkness returns,


s: Like a lamp half-extinguished, and lonely it burns;


s: Faith fades from the age, nor can honour remain,


s: And fame is delusive, and glory is vain.


s: James Scadlock, a poet of considerable power, and an associate of


s: languages. A general stagnation of trade, which threw him out of


s: Scadlock was an upright member of society, a sincere friend, a


s: Where fragrant flowers around are spread,


s: She 's mild 's the sun through April shower


s: She 's sweet as Flora's fav'rite flower,


s: Far down the glen the blackbird 's cheering


s: Then haste, my love, while birds are singing,


s: Now nip the leaves that 's yellow fading;


s: Alas! they 're co'er'd wi' winter's cleading.


s: And cranreugh hoar creeps o'er the grass,


s: interesting works, chiefly reprints of scarce tracts on different


s: Wi' ill-lined skull, but back weel clade,


s: March'd round the barn, and by the shed,


s: Cried--There 's my beast, lad, haud the grup,


s: What 's gowd to me? I 've wealth o' lan',


s: And tradesmen's tongues nae mair could drown;


s: Quite spruce, just frae the washin' tubs,


s: He danced up, squintin' through a glass,


s: But she pinn'd the dishclout to his tail,


s: The last stanza does not appear in the original version of the


s: Ye 've bonnie e'en, and, gif ye 're kind,


s: He humm'd and haw'd, the lass cried "pheugh,"


s: Syne crack'd her thumb, and lap and leugh,


s: The origin of the air is somewhat amusing. The Rev. Mr Gardner,


s: Heaven guard you, love, and heal your heart,


s: Cheer, cheer your heart, some other swain


s: He seeks for thorns, and finds his share,


s: Then, ah! how sweet, when lull'd the storm,


s: There sweet contentment builds her nest,


s: And when life's path grows dark and strait,


s: She dries his tears, she strews his way,


s: Your harmless mirth has cheer'd my heart;


s: May life's fell blasts out o'er ye blaw;


s: When through the glen the wand'rer came,


s: The auld will speak, the young maun hear;


s: My parting breath shall boast you mine--


s: Hech! what a change hae we now in this town!


s: The lads a' sae braw, the lasses sae glancin',


s: Folk maun be dizzie gaun aye in the roun'


s: For deil a haet 's done now but feastin' and dancin'.


s: Gowd 's no that scanty in ilk siller pock,


s: When ilka bit laddie maun hae his bit staigie;


s: But I kent the day when there was nae a Jock,


s: But trotted about upon honest shank's naigie.


s: Little was stown then, and less gaed to waste,


s: Barely a mullin for mice or for rattens;


s: The thrifty housewife to the flesh-market paced,


s: Her equipage a'--just a gude pair o' pattens.


s: Folk were as good then, and friends were as leal,


s: Though coaches were scant, wi' their cattle a-cantrin';


s: Right air we were tell 't by the housemaid or chiel',


s: Sir, an' ye please, here 's your lass and a lantern.


s: The town may be clouted and pieced, till it meets


s: A' neebours benorth and besouth, without haltin';


s: Brigs may be biggit ower lums and ower streets,


s: The Nor' Loch itsel' heapêd heigh as the Calton.


s: But whar is true friendship, and whar will you see,


s: A' that is gude, honest, modest, and thrifty?


s: Tak' gray hairs and wrinkles, and hirple wi' me,


s: And think on the seventeen hundred and fifty.


s: Contributed to the fourth volume of Mr George Thomson's


s: Argyle is my name, and you may think it strange


s: To live at a court, and yet never to change;


s: The good of the land 's the sole motive I know.


s: The foes of my country and king I have faced,


s: In city or battle I ne'er was disgraced;


s: I 've done what I could for my country's weal,


s: Now I 'll feast upon bannocks o' barley meal.


s: And folly, ye foplings, I leave her to you!


s: For Scotland, I mingled in bustle and strife;


s: For myself, I seek peace and an innocent life:


s: I 'll haste to the Highlands, and visit each scene,


s: With Maggie, my love, in her rockley o' green;


s: On the banks of Glenary what pleasure I 'll feel,


s: While she shares my bannock o' barley meal!


s: And if it chance Maggie should bring me a son,


s: He shall fight for his king, as his father has done;


s: I 'll hang up my sword with an old soldier's pride--


s: O! may he be worthy to wear 't on his side.


s: I pant for the breeze of my loved native place;


s: I long for the smile of each welcoming face;


s: I 'll aff to the Highlands as fast 's I can reel,


s: This song was contributed by Sir Alexander Boswell to the third


s: volume of Thomson's Collection. It is not wholly original, but an


s: appreciation of the beauties of nature, considerably extended his


s: From the climes of the sun, all war-worn and weary,


s: The Highlander sped to his youthful abode;


s: Fair visions of home cheer'd the desert so dreary,


s: Though fierce was the noon-beam, and steep was the road.


s: Till spent with the march that still lengthen'd before him,


s: He stopp'd by the way in a sylvan retreat;


s: The light shady boughs of the birch-tree waved o'er him,


s: The stream of the mountain fell soft at his feet.


s: He sunk to repose where the red heaths are blended,


s: On dreams of his childhood his fancy past o'er;


s: But his battles are fought, and his march it is ended,


s: The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more.


s: No arm in the day of the conflict could wound him,


s: Though war launch'd her thunder in fury to kill;


s: Now the Angel of Death in the desert has found him,


s: And stretch'd him in peace by the stream of the hill.


s: Pale Autumn spreads o'er him the leaves of the forest,


s: The fays of the wild chant the dirge of his rest;


s: And thou, little brook, still the sleeper deplorest,


s: And moistens the heath-bell that weeps on his breast.


s: Many years ago, a poor Highland soldier, on his return to his


s: accomplishments, and with the view of acquiring a more decided


s: Thomas was educated at the village-school of Kellieston, and


s: subsequently at the academy of Dumfries. The circumstances of his


s: destruction in terms of regret. The style of Thomas Cunningham


s: Written when the author was quite a youth.


s: An' oh, sae blithe through life I 'll steer,


s: An' sing the streams, the straths, and howes,


s: Where friendship dwells an' freedom reigns,


s: Where heather blooms an' muircocks craw,


s: Why starts the tear, why bursts the sigh,


s: To soothe this sad, this troubled breast;


s: Ballahun is a romantic glen, near Blackwood House, on the river


s: The Clouden is a stream which flows into the Nith, at Lincluden


s: Your streamlets fair, and woodlands gay,


s: And when they reach'd their native skies,


s: That wrings my heart and clouds my mind;


s: Yet though frae your green banks I 'm driven,


s: Her faulds, her bughts, an' birken shaws,


s: Her carlines grim that flyte an' scauld,


s: Her fords, whare neigh'rin' kelpies ply;


s: Her dear-bought freedom wrest frae thee.


s: published a pamphlet "On the State of the Labouring Poor." A more


s: favourable specimens of his lyrical compositions.


s: Possessed of a lively and vigorous fancy, a generous warmth of


s: Alexander Balfour, was published in 1819.


s: How sweet is the scene at the waking o' morning!


s: How fair ilka object that lives in the view!


s: Dame Nature the valley an' hillock adorning,


s: The wild-rose an' blue-bell yet wet wi' the dew.


s: How sweet in the morning o' life is my Anna!


s: Her smiles like the sunbeam that glints on the lea;


s: To wander an' leave the dear lassie, I canna;


s: Frae Truth, Love, an' Beauty, I never can flee.


s: O lang hae I lo'ed her, and lo'ed her fu' dearly,


s: For saft is the smile o' her bonny sweet mou';


s: An' aft hae I read in her e'en, glancing clearly,


s: A language that bade me be constant an' true.


s: Then ithers may doat on their gowd an' their treasure;


s: For pelf, silly pelf, they may brave the rude sea;


s: To lo'e my sweet lassie, be mine the dear pleasure;


s: Wi' her let me live, an' wi' her let me die.


s: Flow saftly, thou stream, through the wild spangled valley;


s: Oh green be thy banks, ever bonny an' fair!


s: Sing sweetly, ye birds, as ye wanton fu' gaily,


s: Yet strangers to sorrow, untroubled by care.


s: An' waste ilka moment, sad, cheerless, alane;


s: Far fled frae my bosom wi' Captain O'Kain.


s: Fu' aft on thy banks hae we pu'd the wild gowan,


s: An' twisted a garland beneath the hawthorn;


s: Ah! then each fond moment wi' pleasure was glowing,


s: Sweet days o' delight, which can never return!


s: An sair is my heart wi' the rigour o' pain;


s: For green waves the willow o'er Captain O'Kain.


s: Cromeck in his "Reliques," erroneously attributes this song to


s: Ere eild wi' his blatters had warsled me down,


s: How aft hae I gane, wi' a heart louping light,


s: How aft hae I sat i' the beild o' the knowe,


s: An' the mavis sang sweet in the plantings around,


s: But, ah! while we daff in the sunshine of youth,


s: We count na' upon the fell waes that may come,


s: I saw na the fause face that fortune can wear,


s: Wi' a heart like to burst, while I sobbed, "Farewell,


s: "Fareweel, ye dear haunts o' the days o' my youth,


s: Ye 'll bloom whan I wander abroad like a ghaist,


s: Ye woods an' ye valleys, I part wi' a sigh,


s: While the flood gushes down frae my e'e;


s: For never again shall the tear weet my cheek,


s: "O Time, could I tether your hours for a wee!


s: Sae I took my departure, an' saunter'd awa',


s: Oh, sair is the heart of the mither to twin,


s: But sairer the pang, when I took a last peep,


s: I heftit 'mang strangers years thretty-an'-twa,


s: An' aften I sigh'd when I thought on the past,


s: But now, wae 's my heart! whan I 'm lyart an' auld,


s: An' fu' lint-white my haffet-locks flee,


s: I 'm hamewards return'd wi' a remnant o' life,


s: Poor body! bewilder'd, I scarcely do ken


s: I yirded a plant in the days o' my youth,


s: But, haith! there 's nae scenes I wad niffer wi' thae;


s: To think how at last my auld banes they will rest,


s: I 've held by her apron these aught years an' ten,


s: But I 'll never gang back to my mammy again.


s: Young Johnnie cam' down i' the gloamin' to woo,


s: Wi' plaidie sae bonny, an' bannet sae blue:


s: "O come awa, lassie, ne'er let mammy ken;"


s: An' I flew wi' my laddie o'er meadow an' glen.


s: He ca'd me his dawtie, his dearie, his doo,


s: An' press'd hame his words wi' a smack o' my mou';


s: While I fell on his bosom heart-flicher'd an' fain,


s: An' sigh'd out, "O Johnnie, I 'll aye be your ain!"


s: Some lasses will talk to their lads wi' their e'e,


s: Yet hanker to tell what their hearts really dree;


s: Wi' Johnnie I stood upon nae stapping-stane,


s: Sae I 'll never gae back to my mammy again.


s: For many lang year sin' I play'd on the lea,


s: The Bard strikes his harp the wild valleys amang,


s: Whare the tall aiken trees spreading leafy appear;


s: While the murmuring breeze mingles sweet wi' his sang,


s: An' wafts the saft notes till they die on the ear;


s: But Mary, whase presence sic transport conveys,


s: Whase beauties my moments o' pleasure control,


s: On the strings o' my heart ever wantonly plays,


s: An' each languishing note is a sigh frae my soul!


s: Her breath is as sweet as the sweet-scented brier,


s: That blossoms and blaws in yon wild lanely glen;


s: When I view her fair form which nae mortal can peer,


s: A something o'erpowers me I dinna weel ken.


s: What sweetness her snawy white bosom displays!


s: The blink o' her bonny black e'e wha' can thole!


s: On the strings o' my heart she bewitchingly plays,


s: For mony lang year I hae heard frae my grannie


s: Of brownies an' bogles by yon castle wa',


s: Of auld wither'd hags that were never thought cannie,


s: An' fairies that danced till they heard the cock caw.


s: I leugh at her tales; an' last owk, i' the gloamin',


s: I daunder'd, alane, down the hazelwood green;


s: Alas! I was reckless, and rue sair my roamin',


s: For I met a young witch, wi' twa bonnie black e'en.


s: I thought o' the starns in a frosty night glancing,


s: Whan a' the lift round them is cloudless an' blue;


s: I looked again, an' my heart fell a-dancing,


s: When I wad hae spoken, she glamour'd my mou'.


s: O wae to her cantrips! for dumpish I wander,


s: At kirk or at market there 's nought to be seen;


s: For she dances afore me wherever I daunder,


s: The hazelwood witch wi' the bonnie black e'en.


s: This is another song of Richard Gall which has been assigned to


s: Now rests the red sun in his caves of the ocean,


s: Now closed every eye but of misery and mine;


s: While, led by the moonbeam, in fondest devotion,


s: I doat on her image, the Flower of the Tyne.


s: Her cheek far outrivals the rose's rich blossom,


s: Her eyes the bright gems of Golconda outshine;


s: The snow-drop and lily are lost on her bosom,


s: For beauty unmatched is the Flower of the Tyne.


s: So charming each feature, so guileless her nature,


s: A thousand fond voices pronounce her divine;


s: So witchingly pretty, so modestly witty,


s: That sweet is thy thraldom, fair Flower of the Tyne!


s: Thine aspect so noble, yet sweetly inviting,


s: The loves and the graces thy temples entwine;


s: In manners the saint and the syren uniting,


s: Bloom on, dear Louisa, the Flower of the Tyne.


s: Though fair, Caledonia, the nymphs of thy mountains,


s: And graceful and straight as thine own silver pine,


s: Though fresh as thy breezes, and pure as thy fountains,


s: Yet fairer to me is the Flower of the Tyne.


s: This poor throbbing heart as an offering I give her,


s: Then smile on thy victim, Louisa, for ever,


s: I 'll kneel at thine altar, sweet Flower of the Tyne.


s: proficiency in classical learning. During the first session of


s: "The tempest blackens on the dusky moor,


s: And billows lash the long-resounding shore;


s: In pensive mood I roam the desert ground,


s: And vainly sigh for scenes no longer found.


s: That chased each care, and fired the muse's powers;


s: The classic haunts of youth, for ever gay


s: Where mirth and friendship cheer'd the close of day,


s: The well-known valleys where I wont to roam,


s: The native sports, the nameless joys of home?


s: Far different scenes allure my wondering eye:


s: The white wave foaming to the distant sky;


s: The cloudy heavens, unblest by summer's smile;


s: The sounding storm that sweeps the rugged isle,


s: The chill, bleak summit of eternal snow,


s: The wide, wild glen, the pathless plains below,


s: The dark blue rocks, in barren grandeur piled,


s: Far different these from all that charm'd before,


s: The grassy banks of Clutha's winding shore:


s: The sloping vales, with waving forests lined;


s: Her smooth blue lakes, unruffled by the wind.


s: Thy gilded turrets from the distant way!


s: Thy sight shall cheer the weary traveller's toil,


s: And joy shall hail me to my native soil."


s: Government in 1798, on the accusation of being a leader in the


s: Campbell was now a visitor in the first literary circles, and was


s: The future career of the poet was not remarkable for any decided


s: For the deck it was their field of fame,


s: Oh! heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale,


s: Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail?


s: 'Tis the chief of Glenara laments for his dear;


s: And her sire, and the people, are call'd to her bier.


s: Glenara came first, with the mourners and shroud;


s: Her kinsmen they follow'd, but mourn'd not aloud:


s: Their plaids all their bosoms were folded around;


s: They march'd all in silence, they look'd on the ground.


s: In silence they reach'd, over mountain and moor,


s: To a heath where the oak-tree grew lonely and hoar.


s: "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn;


s: Why speak ye no word?" said Glenara the stern.


s: "And tell me, I charge you, ye clan of my spouse!


s: Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows?"


s: So spake the rude chieftain. No answer is made,


s: But each mantle unfolding, a dagger display'd.


s: "I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her shroud,"


s: Cried a voice from the kinsmen, all wrathful and loud;


s: "And empty that shroud and that coffin did seem.


s: Glenara! Glenara! now read me my dream."


s: Oh! pale grew the cheek of that chieftain, I ween,


s: When the shroud was unclosed, and no lady was seen;


s: When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn--


s: 'Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn:


s: "I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her grief,


s: I dreamt that her lord was a barbarous chief;


s: On a rock of the ocean fair Ellen did seem.


s: Glenara! Glenara! now read me my dream!"


s: In dust low the traitor has knelt to the ground,


s: And the desert reveal'd where his lady was found;


s: From a rock of the ocean that beauty is borne--


s: Now joy to the house of fair Ellen of Lorn!


s: Alone to the banks of the dark-rolling Danube,


s: Fair Adelaide hied when the battle was o'er.


s: "O, whither," she cried, "hast thou wander'd, my lover,


s: Or here dost thou welter and bleed on the shore?


s: "What voice did I hear? 'twas my Henry that sigh'd!"


s: All mournful she hasten'd, nor wander'd she far,


s: When, bleeding and low, on the heath she descried,


s: By the light of the moon, her poor wounded hussar!


s: From his bosom, that heaved, the last torrent was streaming,


s: And pale was his visage, deep mark'd with a scar,


s: And dim was that eye, once expressively beaming,


s: That melted in love, and that kindled in war!


s: How smit was poor Adelaide's heart at the sight!


s: How bitter she wept o'er the victim of war!


s: "Hast thou come, my fond love, this last sorrowful night,


s: To cheer the lone heart of your wounded hussar?"


s: "Thou shalt live," she replied; "Heaven's mercy relieving


s: Each anguishing wound shall forbid me to mourn!"


s: "Ah, no! the last pang of my bosom is heaving;


s: No light of the morn shall to Henry return!


s: "Thou charmer of life, ever tender and true!


s: Ye babes of my love, that await me afar!"


s: His faltering tongue scarce could murmur adieu,


s: When he sank in her arms--the poor wounded hussar.


s: And her arms along the deep proudly shone;


s: "Hearts of oak!" our Captain cried; when each gun


s: As Death withdrew his shades from the day.


s: Soft sigh the winds of Heaven o'er their grave!


s: Rights that cost your sires their blood!


s: susceptibility to these beneficent charms, might have said in its


s: The fairies are dancing--how nimbly they bound!


s: They flit o'er the grass tops, they touch not the ground;


s: Their kirtles of green are with diamonds bedight,


s: All glittering and sparkling beneath the moonlight.


s: Hark, hark to their music! how silvery and clear--


s: 'Tis surely the flower-bells that ringing I hear,--


s: The lazy-wing'd moth, with the grasshopper wakes,


s: And the field-mouse peeps out, and their revels partakes.


s: How featly they trip it! how happy are they


s: Who pass all their moments in frolic and play,


s: Who rove where they list, without sorrows or cares,


s: And laugh at the fetters mortality wears!


s: But where have they vanish'd?--a cloud 's o'er the moon,


s: I 'll hie to the spot,--they 'll be seen again soon--


s: I hasten--'tis lighter,--and what do I view?--


s: The fairies were grasses, the diamonds were dew.


s: And thus do the sparkling illusions of youth


s: Deceive and allure, and we take them for truth;


s: Too happy are they who the juggle unshroud,


s: Ere the hint to inspect them be brought by a cloud.


s: How pleasant, how pleasant to wander away,


s: O'er the fresh dewy fields at the dawning of day,--


s: To have all this silence and lightness my own,


s: And revel with Nature, alone,--all alone!


s: What a flush of young beauty lies scatter'd around,


s: In this calm, holy sunshine, and stillness profound!


s: The myriads are sleeping, who waken to care,


s: And earth looks like Eden, ere Adam was there.


s: The herbage, the blossoms, the branches, the skies,


s: That shower on the river their beautiful dyes,


s: The far misty mountains, the wide waving fields,


s: What healthful enjoyment surveying them yields!


s: Yes, this is the hour Nature's lovers partake,


s: The manna that melts when Life's vapours awake;


s: Another, and thoughts will be busy, oh how


s: Unlike the pure vision they 're ranging in now!


s: Lo! the hare scudding forth, lo! the trout in the stream


s: Gently splashing, are stirring the folds of my dream,


s: The cattle are rising, and hark, the first bird,--


s: And now in full chorus the woodlands are heard.


s: Oh, who on the summer-clad landscape can gaze,


s: In the orison hour, nor break forth into praise,--


s: Who, through this fair garden contemplative rove,


s: Nor feel that the Author and Ruler is love?


s: I ask no hewn temple, sufficient is here;


s: I ask not art's anthems, the woodland is near;


s: The breeze is all risen, each leaf at his call


s: Has a tear drop of gratitude ready to fall!


s: There 's music in the flowing tide, there 's music in the air,


s: There 's discord in the gilded halls where lordly rivals meet,


s: Oh! who the music of the groves, the music of the heart,


s: Would barter for the city's din, the frigid tones of art?


s: The virtues flourish fresh and fair, where rural waters glide.


s: And, where 's thy song now, sprightly lark,


s: And thou, bright sun, shalt ne'er again,


s: In his nineteenth year, Brown became a member of the "Academy of


s: Margaret Brown, one of the three sisters of Dr Brown, published


s: Yes! the shades we must leave which my childhood has haunted,


s: Each charm by endearing remembrance improved;


s: These walks of our love, the sweet bower thou hast planted,--


s: We must leave them to eyes that will view them unmoved.


s: Oh, weep not, my Fanny! though changed be our dwelling,


s: We bear with us all, in the home of our mind;


s: In virtues will glow that heart, fondly swelling,


s: Affection's best treasure we leave not behind.


s: I shall labour, but still by thy image attended--


s: Can toil be severe which a smile can repay?


s: How glad shall we meet! every care will be ended;


s: And our evening of bliss will be more than a day.


s: Content's cheerful beam will our cottage enlighten;


s: New charms the new cares of thy love will inspire;


s: Thy smiles, 'mid the smiles of our offspring, will lighten;


s: I shall see it--and oh, can I feel a desire?


s: When thy smile was still clouded in gloom,


s: When the tear was still dim in thine eye,


s: I thought of the virtues, scarce cold in the tomb,


s: The sire, whom in sickness, in age, thou hadst bless'd,


s: Thou hadst vow'd, but I urged not the day;


s: And thine eye grateful turn'd, oh, so sweet were its charms,


s: That another would steal on the hour of thy grief,


s: That thy grief would be soft to his art.


s: The love, which for thee would all pangs have endured,


s: Thou couldst smile, as thou gav'st to despair.


s: Why say--yes! I feel that my heart is my own;


s: Though many a month has pass'd since Spring,


s: One whisper of those chords would bring,


s: Though not a sound thy soul hath caught,


s: Ah! the _last_ tones--thou heardst them not--


s: To life, would, would that I could sleep,


s: contributed to the local periodicals and newspapers.


s: My young Jamie that 's far o'er the sea.


s: Frae rocks and frae shoals keep him free;


s: A zealous and respectable antiquary and cultivator of historical


s: Highlands; and an essay which he prepared, suggesting improved


s: Mr Train published, in 1806, a small volume, entitled "Poetical


s: Sir Walter Scott was convinced of the accuracy of the statement,


s: AIR--_"There 's cauld kail in Aberdeen."_


s: I 've loved thee, old Scotia, and love thee I will,


s: Till the heart that now beats in my bosom is still.


s: My forefathers loved thee, for often they drew


s: Their dirks in defence of thy banners of blue;


s: Though murky thy glens, where the wolf prowl'd of yore,


s: And craggy thy mountains, where cataracts roar,


s: The race of old Albyn, when danger was nigh,


s: For thee stood resolved still to conquer or die.


s: I love yet to roam where the beacon-light rose,


s: Where echoed thy slogan, or gather'd thy foes,


s: Whilst forth rush'd thy heroic sons to the fight,


s: Opposing the stranger who came in his might.


s: I love through thy time-fretted castles to stray,


s: The mould'ring halls of thy chiefs to survey;


s: To grope through the keep, and the turret explore,


s: Where waved the blue flag when the battle was o'er.


s: I love yet to roam o'er each field of thy fame,


s: Where valour has gain'd thee a glorious name;


s: I love where the cairn or the cromlach is made,


s: To ponder, for low there the mighty are laid.


s: Were these fall'n heroes to rise from their graves,


s: But let a foe face thee, raise fire on each hill,


s: Thy sons, my dear Scotia, will fight for thee still!


s: conjointly with Sir Walter Scott and Henry Weber, a learned work,


s: Mr Jamieson was of the middle size, of muscular form, and of


s: TUNE--_"My Wife 's a wanton wee Thing."_


s: Wi' a' the wrangs and waes it 's tholed,


s: Walter Watson was the son of a handloom weaver in the village of


s: Besides the volume already mentioned, Watson published a small


s: Now simmer decks the fields wi' flowers,


s: On yon green bank wild flowers he pou'd,


s: Sweet, sweet he talk'd, and aft he vow'd,


s: The sweets o' the simmer invite us to wander


s: Amang the wild flowers, as they deck the green lea,


s: An' by the clear burnies that sweetly meander,


s: To charm us, as hameward they rin to the sea;


s: The nestlin's are fain the saft wing to be tryin',


s: As fondly the dam the adventure is eyein',


s: An' teachin' her notes, while wi' food she 's supplyin'


s: Her tender young offspring, like Maggie an' me.


s: The corn in full ear, is now promisin' plenty,


s: The red clusterin' row'ns bend the witch-scarrin' tree,


s: While lapt in its leaves lies the strawberry dainty,


s: As shy to receive the embrace o' the bee.


s: Then hope, come alang, an' our steps will be pleasant,


s: The future, by thee, is made almost the present;


s: Thou frien' o' the prince an' thou frien' o' the peasant,


s: Thou lang hast befriended my Maggie an' me.


s: Ere life was in bloom we had love in our glances,


s: An' aft I had mine o' her bonnie blue e'e,


s: We needit nae art to engage our young fancies,


s: 'Twas done ere we kent, an' we own't it wi' glee.


s: Now pleased, an' aye wishin' to please ane anither,


s: We 've pass'd twenty years since we buckled thegither,


s: An' ten bonnie bairns, lispin' faither an' mither,


s: Hae toddled fu' fain atween Maggie an' me.


s: Come sit down, my cronie, an' gie me your crack,


s: Let the win' tak the cares o' this life on its back,


s: Our hearts to despondency we ne'er will submit,


s: We 've aye been provided for, an' sae will we yet;


s: An' sae will we yet, an' sae will we yet,


s: We 've aye been provided for, an' sae will we yet.


s: Let 's ca' for a tankar' o' nappy brown ale,


s: It will comfort our hearts an' enliven our tale,


s: We 'll aye be the merrier the langer that we sit,


s: We 've drunk wi' ither mony a time, an' sae will we yet,


s: Sae rax me your mill, an' my nose I will prime,


s: Let mirth an' sweet innocence employ a' our time;


s: Nae quarr'lin' nor fightin' we here will permit,


s: We 've parted aye in unity, an' sae will we yet,


s: The last stanza of this song has, on account of its Bacchanalian


s: When I think on the sweet smiles o' my lassie,


s: My cares flee awa' like a thief frae the day;


s: My heart loups licht, an' I join in a sang


s: Amang the sweet birds on the braes o' Bedlay.


s: How sweet the embrace, yet how honest the wishes,


s: When luve fa's a-wooin', an' modesty blushes,


s: Whaur Mary an' I meet amang the green bushes


s: That screen us sae weel, on the braes o' Bedlay.


s: There 's nane sae trig or sae fair as my lassie,


s: An' meet me nae mair on the braes o' Bedlay.


s: I fearna, I carena, their braggin' o' siller,


s: Nor a' the fine things they can think on to tell her,


s: Nae vauntin' can buy her, nae threatnin' can sell her,


s: It 's luve leads her out to the braes o' Bedlay.


s: We 'll gang by the links o' the wild rowin' burnie,


s: Whaur aft in my mornin' o' life I did stray,


s: Whaur luve was invited and cares were beguiled


s: Sae luvin', sae movin', I 'll tell her my story,


s: Unmixt wi' the deeds o' ambition for glory,


s: Whaur wide spreadin' hawthorns, sae ancient and hoary,


s: Enrich the sweet breeze on the braes o' Bedlay.


s: The braes of Bedlay are in the neighbourhood of Chryston, about


s: AIR--_"Hae ye seen in the calm dewy mornin'."_


s: Hae ye been in the North, bonnie lassie,


s: Whaur the straight stately beech staun's sae gaucy,


s: An' luve lilts his tale through the dell?


s: I can see ye 're fu' handsome an' winnin',


s: I could lean me wi' pleasure beside thee,


s: I maun gang an' get hame, my sweet Jessie,


s: May come roun' on his fine sleekit bawsy,


s: There 's naething like gowd to the miser,


s: There 's naething like light to the e'e,


s: Though my words may be scant to address ye,


s: encouraged the Shepherd to persevere in ballad-making and poetry.


s: science. He was an amateur physician, a student of botany and


s: 'Twas when the wan leaf frae the birk tree was fa'in',


s: And Martinmas dowie had wind up the year,


s: That Lucy row'd up her wee kist wi' her a' in 't,


s: And left her auld maister and neebours sae dear.


s: For Lucy had served in "The Glen" a' the simmer;


s: She cam there afore the flower bloom'd on the pea;


s: An orphan was she, and they had been gude till her,


s: Sure that was the thing brocht the tear to her e'e.


s: She gaed by the stable where Jamie was stan'in',


s: Richt sair was his kind heart the flittin' to see.


s: Fare-ye-weel, Lucy! quo' Jamie, and ran in,


s: The gatherin' tears trickled fast frae his e'e.


s: As down the burnside she gaed slaw wi' the flittin',


s: Fare-ye-weel, Lucy! was ilka bird's sang.


s: She heard the craw sayin 't, high on the tree sittin',


s: And robin was chirpin 't the brown leaves amang.


s: Oh, what is 't that pits my puir heart in a flutter?


s: And what gars the tears come sae fast to my e'e?


s: Then what gars me wish ony better to be?


s: I 'm just like a lammie that loses its mither;


s: Nae mither or friend the puir lammie can see;


s: I fear I hae tint my puir heart a' the gither,


s: Nae wonder the tear fa's sae fast frae my e'e.


s: Wi' the rest o' my claes I hae row'd up the ribbon,


s: The bonnie blue ribbon that Jamie gae me;


s: Yestreen, when he gae me 't, and saw I was sabbin',


s: I 'll never forget the wae blink o' his e'e.


s: Though now he said naething but Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!


s: It made me I neither could speak, hear, nor see,


s: He cudna say mair but just, Fare-ye-weel, Lucy!


s: Yet that I will mind till the day that I dee.


s: The lamb likes the gowan wi' dew when it 's drowkit;


s: The hare likes the brake, and the braird on the lea,


s: But Lucy likes Jamie;--she turn'd and she lookit,


s: She thocht the dear place she wad never mair see.


s: Ah, weel may young Jamie gang dowie and cheerless,


s: And weel may he greet on the bank o' the burn;


s: For bonnie sweet Lucy, sae gentle and peerless,


s: Lies cauld in her grave, and will never return.


s: On the banks o' the burn while I pensively wander,


s: The mavis sings sweetly, unheeded by me;


s: I think on my lassie, her gentle mild nature,


s: I think on the smile o' her bonnie black e'e.


s: When heavy the rain fa's, and loud, loud the win' blaws,


s: An' simmer's gay cleedin' drives fast frae the tree;


s: I heedna the win' nor the rain when I think on


s: The kind lovely smile o' my lassie's black e'e.


s: When swift as the hawk, in the stormy November,


s: The cauld norlan' win' ca's the drift owre the lea;


s: Though bidin' its blast on the side o' the mountain,


s: When braw at a weddin' I see the fine lasses,


s: Though a' neat an' bonnie, they 're naething to me;


s: I sigh an' sit dowie, regardless what passes,


s: When I miss the smile o' her bonnie black e'e.


s: When thin twinklin' sternies announce the gray gloamin',


s: When a' round the ingle sae cheerie to see;


s: Then music delightfu', saft on the heart stealin',


s: Minds me o' the smile o' her bonnie black e'e.


s: Where jokin' an' laughin', the lave they are merry,


s: Though absent my heart, like the lave I maun be;


s: Sometimes I laugh wi' them, but aft I turn dowie,


s: An' think on the smile o' my lassie's black e'e.


s: Her lovely fair form frae my mind 's awa' never,


s: She 's dearer than a' this hale warld to me;


s: An' this is my wish, may I leave it if ever


s: She rowe on anither her love-beaming e'e.


s: Alake for the lassie! she 's no right at a',


s: That lo'es a dear laddie an' he far awa';


s: But the lassie has muckle mair cause to complain


s: That lo'es a dear lad, when she 's no lo'ed again.


s: The fair was just comin', my heart it grew fain


s: To see my dear laddie, to see him again;


s: My heart it grew fain, an' lapt light at the thought


s: O' milkin' the ewes my dear Jamie wad bught.


s: The bonnie gray morn scarce had open'd her e'e,


s: When we set to the gate, a' wi' nae little glee;


s: I was blythe, but my mind aft misga'e me richt sair,


s: For I hadna seen Jamie for five months an' mair.


s: I' the hirin' richt soon my dear Jamie I saw,


s: I saw nae ane like him, sae bonnie an' braw;


s: I watch'd an' baid near him, his motions to see,


s: In hopes aye to catch a kind glance o' his e'e.


s: At length I gaed up an' just smiled in his face;


s: I wonder aye yet my heart brakna in twa,


s: He just said, "How are ye," an' steppit awa'.


s: My neebour lads strave to entice me awa';


s: They roosed me an' hecht me ilk thing that was braw;


s: But I hatit them a', an' I hatit the fair,


s: For Jamie's behaviour had wounded me sair.


s: His heart was sae leal, and his manners sae kind!


s: He 's someway gane wrang, he may alter his mind;


s: An' sud he do sae, he 's be welcome to me--


s: subsequent to the middle of the century.


s: Macdonald was author of a large quantity of poetry, embracing the


s: Awake, thou first of creatures! Indignant in their frown,


s: Let the flag unfold the features that the heather blossoms crown;


s: And I will follow thee the best, that I may dow or dare.


s: Yes, I will sing the Lion-King o'er all the tribes victorious,


s: To living thing may not concede thy meed and actions glorious;


s: How oft thy noble head has woke thy valiant men to battle,


s: As panic o'er their spirit broke, and rued the foe their mettle!


s: Is there, thy praise to underrate, in very thought presuming,


s: O'er crested chieftainry thy state, O thou, of right assuming!


s: I see thee, on thy silken flag, in rampant glory streaming,


s: As life inspired their firmness thy planted hind feet seeming.


s: The standard tree is proud of thee, its lofty sides embracing,


s: Anon, unfolding, to give forth thy grandeur airy space in.


s: A following of the trustiest are cluster'd by thy side,


s: And woe, their flaming visages of crimson, who shall bide?


s: The heather and the blossom are pledges of their faith,


s: And the foe that shall assail them, is destined to the death.


s: Was not a dearth of mettle among thy native kind?


s: They were foremost in the battle, nor in the chase behind.


s: O deep and large was every gash that mark'd their manly vigour,


s: And irresistible the flash that lighten'd round their trigger;


s: They rush elate to stern debate, the battle call has never


s: How oft the heady war in, has it chased where thousands ran.


s: O ready, bold, and venom full, these native warriors brave,


s: Like adders coiling on the hill, they dart with stinging glaive;


s: Nor wants their course the speed, the force,


s: This of the rock, that of the flock that skim along the water,


s: Their gathering might, what legion wight, in rivalry has dared;


s: Or to ravish from their Lion's face a bristle of his beard?


s: What limbs were wrench'd, what furrows drench'd,


s: That atoned the provocation, and smoked from head to heel,


s: While cry and shriek of terror break the field of strife along,


s: And stranger notes are wailing the slaughter'd heaps among!


s: Like gallant deer-hounds from the slip, or like an arrow flew,


s: Where deathful strife was calling, and sworded files were closed


s: Was sapping breach the wall in of the ranks that stood opposed,


s: And thirsty brands were hot for blood, and quivering to be on,


s: And with the whistle of the blade was sounding many a groan.


s: O from the sides of Albyn, full thousands would be proud,


s: The natives of her mountains gray, around the tree to crowd,


s: Where stream the colours flying, and frown the features grim,


s: Of your emblem lion with his staunch and crimson limb.


s: Up, up, be bold, quick be unrolled, the gathering of your levy,


s: Let every step bound forth a leap, and every hand be heavy;


s: The furnace of the melee where burn your swords the best,


s: Eschew not, to the rally where blaze your streamers, haste!


s: The Macdonalds claimed the right wing in battle.


s: A lion rampant is their cognizance; gules.


s: Their original patronymic, from, we suppose, _Old King Coul_;


s: Coll, or Colla, is a common name in the tribe.


s: The "Mire Chatta," or battle-dance, denotes the frenzy, supposed


s: The clan consisted of many septs, whose rights of precedence are


s: A fetter beguiling, dairy-maiden, thy smiling;


s: Thy glove there 's a wile in, of white hand the cover;


s: When a-milking, thy stave is more sweet than the mavis,


s: As his melodies ravish the woodlands all over;


s: Thy wild notes so cheerie, bring the small birds to hear thee,


s: And, fluttering, they near thee, who sings to discover.


s: To fulness as growing, so liquid, so flowing,


s: Thy song makes a glow in the veins of thy lover.


s: They may talk of the viol, and its strings they may try all,


s: For the heart's dance, outvie all, the songs of the dairy!


s: White and red are a-blending, on thy cheeks a-contending,


s: And a smile is descending from thy lips of the cherry;


s: Teeth their ivory disclosing, like dice, bright round rows in,


s: An eye unreposing, with twinkle so merry;


s: At summer-dawn straying, on my sight beams are raying,


s: From the tresses they 're playing of the maid of the dairy.


s: At milking the prime in, song with strokings is chiming,


s: And the bowie is timing a chorus-like humming.


s: Sweet the gait of the maiden, nod her tresses a-spreading


s: O'er her ears, like the mead in, the rash of the common.


s: Her neck, amber twining, its colours combining,


s: How their lustre is shining in union becoming!


s: Thy duties a-plying, white fingers are vying


s: With white arms, in drying the streams of the heifer,


s: O to linger the fold in, at noonday beholding,


s: When the tether 's enfolding, be my pastime for ever!


s: The music of milking, with melodies lilting,


s: While with "mammets" she 's "tilting," and her bowies run over,


s: Is delight; and assuming thy pails, as becoming


s: As a lady, dear woman! grace thy motions discover.


s: Dress ornaments are much prized by the humbler Gael, and make a


s: We must suppose some sylvan social occupation, as oak-peeling or


s: Here follows a catalogue of rival beauties, with satirical


s: While the shades conceal'd our courting,


s: The gannet, or the _stranger-bird_, from his foreign derivation


s: Strength never quell'd, and sword and shield,


s: Would let their volley, like fire to holly,


s: Fearless, artless, hawk-eyed, courteous,


s: Comes too, the wight, the clean, the tight,


s: Nor heed though wife and child pursue all,


s: Are strange to fear;--their broadswords shear


s: "Round as the shield of my fathers."--_Ossian_.


s: The French military costume, distinguished by its white colour,


s: Macdonald of Sleat, Macleod, and others, first hesitated, and


s: finally withheld themselves from the party of the white cockade.


s: See the Rev. Patrick Macdonald's Collection, No. 106.


s: She was a daughter of Menzies of that Ilk, in Perthshire. The


s: Ah, the wound of my breast! Sinks my heart to the dust,


s: And the rain-drops of sorrow are watering the ground;


s: So impassive to hear, never pierces my ear,


s: Or briskly or slowly, the music of sound.


s: For, what tidings can charm, while emotion is warm


s: With the thought of my Prince on his travel unknown;


s: The royal in blood, by misfortune subdued,


s: While the base-born by hosts is secured on the throne?


s: Of the hound is the race that has wrought our disgrace,


s: Yet the boast of the litter of mongrels is small,