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Rh When she came to high Germanic, By fortune there she her love did see Upon a lofty rampart wall, As he was standing senterie.

“Oh! were my love in this countrie, Oh! I could swear that yon was she; For there’s nae a face sae fu’ o’ grace In a’ the land o’ Germanie.”

The first she met was the Colonel then, And he asked her most courteouslie. From whence she came, where she was boun’ Her name, and from what countrie.

“From fair Scotland,” she said, “I came In hopes my lover true to see; And now I hear he’s a grenadier Into your Lordship’s companie.”

“What’s thy lover’s name my comely dame, O lady fair, come tell me than, For it’s a pity thy love should be In the station of a single man.”

“Willie Graeme is my lover’s name, All this hardship’s suffered for me, Tho’ it should cost me thousands ten, A single man nae mair he s’he’s [sic] be.”