Songs and ballads of Clydesdale. With illustr. notes by A. NimmoA Nimmo 1882 |
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... fell deeply in love with a girl named Alison Bogle , the heroine of the song . One night when visiting her , they quarrelled , and the mischievous girl , acting in the character of her name , donned a white shirt over her clothes ...
... fell deeply in love with a girl named Alison Bogle , the heroine of the song . One night when visiting her , they quarrelled , and the mischievous girl , acting in the character of her name , donned a white shirt over her clothes ...
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... Fell , The hills of Walston and Dunsyre , the scenes I loved so well ; Tho ' oceans wide may us divide , while memory is true , I'll ne'er forget your much - loved scenes - tho ' now I say adieu ! I've oft surveyed with joy , my fair ...
... Fell , The hills of Walston and Dunsyre , the scenes I loved so well ; Tho ' oceans wide may us divide , while memory is true , I'll ne'er forget your much - loved scenes - tho ' now I say adieu ! I've oft surveyed with joy , my fair ...
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... fell upon Mary Fleming , whose father's home was Boghall Castle , Biggar . ELEGIAC BALLAD . ALL on the grass - green margin of Clyde , A fair maiden disconsolate lay Red swoll'n were her eyes with the salt trickling tear , And her cheek ...
... fell upon Mary Fleming , whose father's home was Boghall Castle , Biggar . ELEGIAC BALLAD . ALL on the grass - green margin of Clyde , A fair maiden disconsolate lay Red swoll'n were her eyes with the salt trickling tear , And her cheek ...
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... fell mortally wounded , and was carried to his house in the Lawn Market , only a few yards from where he fell , and died in a few minutes . Chiesly was immediately apprehended , tried on Monday , sentenced to be executed on Wednesday ...
... fell mortally wounded , and was carried to his house in the Lawn Market , only a few yards from where he fell , and died in a few minutes . Chiesly was immediately apprehended , tried on Monday , sentenced to be executed on Wednesday ...
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... fell as the surge on the shore , Firm as the rock on the ocean for ages , Stem the rude torrent till danger is o'er . Fate with its whirlwind our joys may all sever , True to ourselves we have nothing to fear This be our hope and our ...
... fell as the surge on the shore , Firm as the rock on the ocean for ages , Stem the rude torrent till danger is o'er . Fate with its whirlwind our joys may all sever , True to ourselves we have nothing to fear This be our hope and our ...
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adieu auld baith ballad bawbee beauty Biggar bloom bonnie lassie bower braes braw bright Carnwath Brass Band Carnwath kirkyard Carstairs Castle cauld cheek Clyde Clyde's waters Clydesdale Copland's Coulter Coulter Fell Covenanters Covington dear Dollerie Mills e'en e'er fair flowers frae gang George Lockhart gin my wife Glaisca whisky grave GRAY BROTHER green gude hame happy hath heart heaven hills hooly and fairly JOANNA BAILLIE John Frost Katie Core Kersewell king lady Laird Lamington Lanark langsyne lasses Liberton Lilt te turan Lockhart Lord married ava merry mony Morris's smiddy nae bonnie lad nae mair ne'er never Newbiggin o'er owre puir Quothquan Scotland siller Somerville song sweet thee There's thou turan an uran TWA BROTHERS vale of Clyde weel Westside wood wife wad Ye'll young Hyndford
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Page 179 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 88 - The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne, The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep, The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
Page 85 - Twas a dream of those ages of darkness and blood, When the minister's home was the mountain and wood ; When in Wellwood's dark valley the standard of Zion, All bloody and torn 'mong the heather was lying.
Page 208 - He's lifted her on a milk-white steed, And himself on a dapple grey. With a bugelet horn hung down by his side, And slowly they baith rade away. O they rade on, and on they rade, And a' by the light of the moon, Until they came to yon wan water, And there they lighted down.
Page 89 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Page 245 - WHEN SHALL WE ALL MEET AGAIN? WHEN shall we all meet again ? When shall we all meet again ? Oft shall glowing hope expire, Oft shall wearied love retire, Oft shall death and sorrow reign, Ere we all shall meet again.
Page 149 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay, All flesh is hay : Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Page 88 - The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes — like the flower...
Page 185 - I was a bride. E'en tak to your wheel and be clever, And draw out your thread in the sun { The gear that is gifted it never Will last like the gear that is won. Woo'd and married and a, ! Wi
Page 87 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.