A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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*' There came a wind out of the nortb>
A sharp wind and a snell ; *
And a dead sleep came over me^
And frae my horse I fell.
^' The queen of fairies keppit me.
In yon green hill to dwell
And Fm a fairy, lyth and limb j
Fair ladye^ view me well.
'^^ But we that live in Fairy land^
No sickness know, nor pain;
I quit my body when I will,
And take to it again.
"• I quit my body when I please,
Or unto it repair
We can inhabit^ at our ease.
In either earth or air,
" Our shapes and size we can conveil
To either large or small
An old nut-shell's the same to \\s,
As is the lofty hall.
•'•' We sleep in rosebuds, s.oft and sweety
We revel in the stream.
We wanton lightly on the wind,,
Or glide on a sun-beam.
^* And all our wants are well supplied
From every rich mans store.
Who, thankless, sins the gifts he gets^
And vainly grasps for more.
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