Your smile, that is blither than ony, An' the sweet blinks o' love there sae bonny, She turn'd her around, an' said, smiling, Gae make out the lease, do not linger, There's joy in the bright blooming feature, The fond little heart that's our ain! THE MINSTREL BOY. THE Minstrel Boy to the glen is gone, He sings of nature all in her prime, Of sweets that around him hover, Of mountain heath and moorland thyme, How wildly sweet is the minstrel's lay, But unless there be love in the heart within, FAREWELL TO GLEN-SHALLOCH. FAREWELL to Glen-Shalloch. A farewell for ever! Farewell to my wee cot That stands by the river! The fall is loud sounding I saw her last night, 'Mid the rocks that enclose them, With a child at her knee, And a child at her bosom : I heard her sweet voice 'Mid the depth of my slumber, And the sang that she sung Was of sorrow and cumber. How our laurels are withering ; I'll bind on thy sword When the clansmen are gathering; I'll bid thee go forth In the cause of true honour, And never return Till thy country hath won her! "Our tower of devotion Is the house of the reaver; The pride of the ocean Is fallen for ever! The pride of the forest, That time could not weaken, Is trod in the dust, And its honours are shaken ! Rise, spirits of yore, Ever dauntless in danger! CALEDONIA. CALEDONIA thou land of the mountain and rock, Though bare are thy cliffs, and though barren thy glens, Yet kind are the hearts, and undaunted the clans, A foe from abroad, or a tyrant at home, The muses have left all the vales of the south, Sweet land of the bay and the wild-winding deeps, While far in the depth of the blue water sleeps Thou land of the valley, the moor, and the hill, THE LAIRD O' LAMINGTON. CAN I bear to part wi' thee, Can I bear to part wi' thee, Drunken Laird o' Lamington ? Canty war ye o'er your kale, Heart aye kind, an' leel, an' hale, He that swears is but so so, He that lies to hell must go, He that falls in bagnio, Falls in the devil's frying-pan. Never sat at sinfu' board? The Honest Laird o' Lamington. He that cheats can ne'er be just; |