Something in her bosom wrings, And oh! her een they spak sic things! Duncan was a lad o' grace, Ha, ha, the wooing o't: Ha, ha, the wooing o't: Duncan could na be her death, HERE'S A HEALTH TO THEM THAT'S AWA HERE'S a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause, It's gude to be merry and wise, It's gude to be honest and true; It's gude to support Caledonia's cause, Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to Charlie' the chief o' the clan, May Liberty meet wi' success! May Prudence protect her frae evil! May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist, Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's freedom to them that wad read, Here's freedom to them that wad write, 1 Charles James Fox. 2 Hon. Thos. Erskine, afterwards Lord Erskine. There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth would indite. Here's a health to them that's awa, An' here's to them that's awa! Here's to Maitland and Wycombe, let wha doesna Be built in a hole in the wa'; Here's timmer that's red at the heart Here's fruit that is sound at the core; And may he be that wad turn the buff and blue coat Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's chieftain M'Leod, a chieftain worth gowd, A TIPPLING BALLAD On the Duke of Brunswick's Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792. WHEN Princes and Prelates, And hot-headed zealots, A' Europe had set in a low, a low, The poor man lies down, Nor envies a crown, And comforts himself as he dow, as he dow, And comforts himself as he dow. The black-headed eagle, As keen as a beagle, He hunted o'er height and o'er howe, In the braes o' Gemappe, He fell in a trap, E'en let him come out as he dow, dow, dow, But truce with commotions, And lang may they ring as they dow, dow, dow, POORTITH CAULD AND RESTLESS LOVE Tune "Cauld Kail in Aberdeen." O POORTITH Cauld, and restless love, Chorus- why should Fate sic pleasure have, Or why sae sweet a flower as love The warld's wealth, when I think on, It's pride and a' the lave o't; O fie on silly coward man, That he should be the slave o't! O why, &c. Her e'en, sae bonie blue, betray O wha can prudence think upon, O wha can prudence think upon, O why, &c. How blest the simple cotter's fate! ON POLITICS IN Politics if thou would'st mix, BRAW LADS O' GALLA WATER BRAW, braw lads on Yarrow-braes, They rove amang the blooming heather; But there is ane, a secret ane, Altho' his daddie was nae laird, And tho' I hae nae meikle tocher, Yet rich in kindest, truest love, We'll tent our flocks by Galla Water. It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, O that's the chiefest warld's treasure. SONNET WRITTEN ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY, On hearing a Thrush sing in his Morning Walk. SING on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough, Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain, At thy blythe carol, clears his furrowed brow. So in lone Poverty's dominion drear, Sits meek Content with light, unanxious heart; Welcomes the rapid moments, bids them part, Nor asks if they bring ought to hope or fear. I thank thee, Author of this opening day! Yet come, thou child of poverty and care, The mite high heav'n bestow'd, that mite with thee I'll share. WANDERING WILLIE First Version HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie, And tell me thou bring'st me my Willie the same. Ye hurricanes rest in the cave o' your slumbers, And waft my dear laddie ance mair to my arms. O still flow between us, thou wide roaring main; May I never see it, may I never trow it, But, dying, believe that my Willie's my ain! |