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Excerpt from Poems and Songs, Chiefly Scottish
Oh! Lassie, courting's unco sweet, Page 93' Daughter of Gallia, 95 Fareweel, ae kiss, and then fareweel, 98 Hey bonnie lass 100 Discretion and care, 102' When wanderin' out, 104' November bleak, 106 The duck's dung o'er my daddie, 108 I am come to seek a wife, 110 The Wind thereout may rair and rout, 112 Now Winter ?ees, 1 16 Sic a day sic fun and play, 117 To daunton me, 120 F irst Whan Nelly and I fell ih, 122 Sair failed Nannie 124 Tis Nelly's Voice, 126 Oh merrily set the quaker's Wife, 128 Of all the maids that deck, 130 Simmer breezes blaw, love, 132 The hail it may rattle, 134 F arewell, for the night cloud is gathering fast, 136 And do I see thy ain sweet smile, 137 Oh dowie dowie comes the morn, 139 While nature steeped in dew is still, 140. The Win' blaws loud, Wi' angry thud, 151 When the dove from theark, 144 A single life's a cauldrife 'life, 146 Oh'! Nelly, thou art a' sae fair, 149 Now Winter quits the frozen plain, 151 Can you quit the tall mansions, 152 Whan cauld o'er thedunyan, 154 Down amang the broom, the broom, 156.
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