The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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'^^ Nae hame have I," the minstrel said ;
" Sad party-strife owerturned my ha'
And, weeping, at the close o' life,
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I wander through a wreath o' snaw."
" Wae's me, auld carle ! sad is your tale
Your scrip is toom, your claithing thin
Mine's no the hand to steek the door,
When want and wae wad fain be in."
Wi' tottering step he reached the spence,
Whar sune the ingle bleezed fu hie
The auld man thought himsell at hame,
While the tear stood twinkling in his ee.
He took his pipes, and played a spring
But, oh, it was a strain of woe
It spoke of Scotland's chiefs and king,
And wailed a nation's overthrow.*
LASSIE, LIE NEAR ME.
DR BLACKLOCK.
Tune—Laddie^ lie near me.
Lang hae we parted been.
Lassie, my dearie
Now we are met again,
Lassie, lie near me.
* The first three and a hrlf stanzas of this poem were published, as a fragment,
in Johnson's Musical Museum, Part IV, 1792; having been sent to
the editor of that work in an anonymous letter, which bore, however, the
Newcastle post-mark. They were at first attributed to Burns, but were afterwards
discovered to be the composition of William Pickering, a poor
North of England poet, who never wrote any thing else of the least merit.
The additional Imes have been presented to the editor of this work by their
author, Captain Charles Gray, of the Royal Marines, author of the lively
drinking song to the tune of " Andre and his Cutty Gun," inserted in another
part of this collection.
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