FRAGMENT IN WITHERSPOON'S COLLECTION OF SCOTS SONGS. " 'O GIN my love were yon red rose, ' And I mysel' a drap o' dew, 'Oh, there beyond expression blest, * O were my love yon lilac fair, Wi' purple blossoms to the spring; When wearied on my little w'ng: How I wad mourn, when it was torn When youthfu' May its bloom renew❜d.* These stanzas were added by Burns. BONNIE JEAN. THERE was a lass, and she was fair, And ay she wrought her mammie's wark, Had ne'er a lighter heart than she. But hawks will rob the tender joys That bless the little lintwhite's nest; And frost will blight the fairest flowers, And love will break the soundest rest. Young Robie was the brawest lad, He gaed wi' Jeanie to the tryste, Her heart was tint, her peace was stown. As in the bosom o' the stream, The moon-beam dwells at dewy e'en; So trembling, pure, was tender love, Within the breast o' bonnie Jean. And now she works her mammie's wark, But did na Jeanie's heart loup light, The sun was sinking in the west, O Jeanie fair, I lo'e thee dear; O canst thou think to fancy me! At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge, Now what could artless Jeanie do? PHILLIS THE FAIR. Tune Robin Adair.' WHILE larks with little wing, Gay the sun's golden eye, Peep'd o'er the mountains high; Such thy morn! did I cry, Phillis the fair. In each bird's careless song, While yon wild flowers among, Rosebuds bent the dewy spray; Such thy bloom! did I say, Phillis the fair. Down in a shady walk, Doves cooing were, I mark'd the cruel hawk Caught in a snare: So kind may Fortune be, He who would injure thee. SONG. To the same Tune. HAD I cave on some wild, distant shore, Where the winds howl to the waves' dashing roar There would I weep my woes, There seek my lost repose, Till grief my eyes should close, Falsest of womankind, canst thou declare, SONG. Tune Allan Water.' By Allan stream I chanc'd to rove, I listened to a lover's sang, And thought on youthfu' pleasures mony; And ay the wild-wood echoes rang O, dearly do I love thee, Annie! * A mountain west of Strath-Allan, 3,009 feet high. |