Tune-"Ay wakin', O."

A old and once popular lyric suggested this brief and

CCLI.

CALEDONIA.

Tune-" Humours of Glen."

[Love of country often mingles in the lyric strains of Burns with his personal attachments, and in few more beautifully than in the following, written for Thomson the heroine was Mrs. Burns.]

I.

THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon,

Where bright-beaming summers exalt the

perfume;

Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green brockan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow

broom:

Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly

unseen;