The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Sweet to the opening day,
Rosebuds bent tlie dewy spray
Such thy bloom ! did I say,
Phillis the fair.
Down in a shady walk.
Doves cooing were
I marked the cruel hawk
Caught in a snare ;
So kind may fortune be !
Such make his destiny,
He who would injure thee,
Phillis the fair I
PEGGY AND PATIE.
[from the gentle shepherd.]
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allan ramsay.
The Yellotv-haired Laddie.
PEGGY.
When first ray dear laddie gaed to the green hill,
And I at ewe- milking first seyed my young skill,
To bear the milk bowie nae pain was to me,
When I at the bughting forgather'd with thee.
patie.
When corn-riggs waved yellow, and blue heather-bells
Bloomed bonny on moorland and sweet rising fells,
Nae birns, brier, or bracken, gave trouble to me,
If I found but the berries right ripened for thee.
PFGGY.
When thou ran, or wrestled, or putted the stane,
And cam aff the victor, mv heart was aye fain :
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