with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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YOUNG DAMON.
This air is hy Oswald.
BLYTHE WAS SHE.
I COMPOSED these verses zvliile I stayed at Och^
tertyre with Sir William Murray.— TAe lady, who
was also at Ochtertyre at the same time, was the
well-knozon toast. Miss Euphemia Murray of Len-
trose, who was called, and very justly. The Flower
of Strathmore.
Blythe, hlythe and merry was she,
Blythe was she but and ben
Blythe by the banks of Em,
And blythe in Glenturit glen.
By Oughtertyre grows the aik,
On Yarrow banks, the birken shaw
But Phemie was a bonnier lass,
Than braes o' Yarrow ever saw.
Blythe, S^c,
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