with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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ah! the poor shepherds mournful fate.
Tune Gallashiels.
The old title f Sour Plums o' Gallashiels, proba-
bly was the beginning of a song to this air, which
is nozo lost.
The tune of Gallashiels was composed about the
beginning of the present century by the Laird of
Gallashiel's piper.
THE BANKS OF THE DEVON.
Tune Rhannerach dhon na chri.
These verses were composed on a charming girl,
a Miss Charlotte Hamilton , who is 7iozo married to
James M'Kitrick Adair, Esq. physician. She is
sister to my worthy friend, Gavin Hamilton, of
Mauchline; and was born on the banks of Ayr,
but was, at the time I zvrote these lines, residing at
Herveyston, in Clackmannanshire, on the romantic
* The Piper of Gallashiels was the subject of an unpublished
mock-heroic Poem, by Hamilton of Bangoiir.--Ed.
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