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All white hang the bushes o'er Elaw's sweet stream,

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Amid Loch-Catrine's scenery wild,

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Blow on, ye wild winds, o'er his hallowed

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Blythely I hae screwed my pipes,

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By the side of a mountain, o'ershadowed with trees,

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Can a crown give content,

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Claudine lived contented, and peace was her lot,

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Fair dream of my slumber, sad thoughts of my waking,
Far lone amang the highland hills,

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Farewell! if ever fondest prayer,

Byron,

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Farewell, oh sweet hope! I have wept thee in sadness,
For many a wistful hour to pity dear,

From his booth on the hill, the sad shepherd retires, .
From my slumber I woke at the dead hour of

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How ardently my bosom glows,

James Yool,

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How eerily, how drearily, how wearily to pine,

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How green the fields, the flowers how fair,

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How still is the night, and how death-like the gloom,

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I have known what it was to be happy and gay,

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In vain thou call'st for a mirthful smile,

Isabelle! Isabelle! hark to my soft lute,

I saw from the beach when the morning was shining,

I saw thee weep-the big bright tear,

I saw thy form in youthful prime,

Is there a man whose breast ne'er glow'd,

Its filmy wing of azure hue,

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It was Dunois, the young and brave, was bound for Palestine,

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Fanny de Beauharnois, 361

I've no sheep on the mountains, nor boat on the lake,
I whispered her my last adieu,

Joanna Baillie, 69

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Keen and cold is the blast loudly whistling around,
Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' Gleniffer,
Kenmure's on an' awa, Willie,

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Let us haste to Kelvin grove, bonnie lassie, O,
Light springs the pang, light passes by,

Loud roar'd the tempest, the night was descending,
Love under Friendship's vesture white,

Love will not bloom where envy breathes,

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Mary, why thus waste thy youth-time in sorrow,

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My father and mother now lie with the dead,

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Nae mair we'll meet again, my love, by yon burn side,

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O beauty, peerless is thy glow,

O cease, ye howling winds, to blow,

O check, my love, the falling tear,

O cherub, Content, at thy moss-covered shrine,

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Oh! bright rose the sun on the beautiful ocean,

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O heard you the Mermaid of the sea,

R. Allan,

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O! heard you yon pibroch sound sad in the gale,
Oh! holy be the sod,

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Oh! I hae lost my silken snood,

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Oh, once there were minutes when light my heart beat,
Oh! that the chemist's magic art,

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Oh! weep not, sweet maid, though the bright

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Once in the flight of ages past,

Once more, enchanting girl, adieu,

On the dark forest side an old minstrel sat playing,

O poortith cauld, and restless love,

O sleep not, Mosca, but wait for thy love,

slumber, my darling, thy sire is a knight,

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O stop na, bonnie bird, that strain,
O sweet is the calm dewy evening,
O! synge untoe mie roundelaie,
O thou hast seen the lily fair,

O Tibby I hae seen the day,

O turn from me those stars of light,

Our father's brow was cold, his eye,
Our Lady sat in our good Lord's ball,
Our Youth will fade as fades the flower,
Ovir Castell and Towre, ovir Citie and Toune,
O we aft hae met at e'en, bonnie Peggy, O,

O weep not thus,-we both shall know,
O, wha's at my chamber door,

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O, when again shall my eyes rove,

O, when shall I visit the land of my birth,
O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad,

O white foaming Rhaider, by thy roaring fall, O! who rides by night through the woodlands so wild,

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O Willie, weel I mind, I lent you my hand,

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She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps,

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