Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - 283 pages |
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... Highland Laddie , 206 The Greys , 209 A Curling Song , 212 The Downfall of the Crescent , 214 The Emigrant , 218 The Shepherd's Complaint , 220 Written at a Plowing Match , & c . 222 The Banks of Clouden , 224 The Banks of Scar , 226 ...
... Highland Laddie , 206 The Greys , 209 A Curling Song , 212 The Downfall of the Crescent , 214 The Emigrant , 218 The Shepherd's Complaint , 220 Written at a Plowing Match , & c . 222 The Banks of Clouden , 224 The Banks of Scar , 226 ...
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... HIGHLAND LADDIE . AIR " Blythe was the day when ye fee'd wi ' my father , O. " How smooth pass'd the time while Donald was near me , Through the long summer day I never was weary , When he told me his love , I felt such emotion , That ...
... HIGHLAND LADDIE . AIR " Blythe was the day when ye fee'd wi ' my father , O. " How smooth pass'd the time while Donald was near me , Through the long summer day I never was weary , When he told me his love , I felt such emotion , That ...
Page 207
... Highland laddie . To sing of their feats on the plains of Iberia , It volumes would fill , and your patience would weary . They fought at Corunna , Salamanca , and Vittoria , Where never - fading laurels gain'd our brave Highland laddies ...
... Highland laddie . To sing of their feats on the plains of Iberia , It volumes would fill , and your patience would weary . They fought at Corunna , Salamanca , and Vittoria , Where never - fading laurels gain'd our brave Highland laddies ...
Page 208
... Highland laddies . The eighteenth of June will be kept in recollec tion , While the planets obey the power of attraction , How on Waterloo plain our squares stood so steady , That the French Cuirassiers could not move our Highland laddies ...
... Highland laddies . The eighteenth of June will be kept in recollec tion , While the planets obey the power of attraction , How on Waterloo plain our squares stood so steady , That the French Cuirassiers could not move our Highland laddies ...
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... laddie . THE GREYS . AIR- " Jolly Jack Tar . " To our brave Highland lads , my pipes I have screw'd , And sung in their praises as well as I could ; Now my shell I will string , tho ' artless my lays , And in my best numbers I'll sing ...
... laddie . THE GREYS . AIR- " Jolly Jack Tar . " To our brave Highland lads , my pipes I have screw'd , And sung in their praises as well as I could ; Now my shell I will string , tho ' artless my lays , And in my best numbers I'll sing ...
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