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 How changed frae the time when I met wi' my love

Amang the broomm bushes by Stanely green sha

The wild flowers o'simmer were spread a' sae

bonny

The mavis sang sweet frae the green birken tree

But far to the camp they hae marched my dear

Johnnie,

And now it is winter wi' nature and me.

Then ilk thing around us was blythesome and cheery

Then ilk thing around us was bonny and braw;

Now naethind is heard but the wind whistling dreary

And naething is seen but the wide-spreading snaw.

The trees are a' bare, an' the birds mute and dowie

They shake the cauld drif frae taeir wings as

they flee,

Au chirp out their plaints seeming wae for ym

Johnnie,

Tis winter wi' them and tis winter wi'me.

Yon cauld sleety clouds skiffs alang the bleak moun-

tains,

And shakes the dark firs on the stey rocky brae,

While down the steep glen bawls the snaw-fooled

fountains,

That {illegible}} sae sweet to my laddie and me.