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17 It may escape the courtly sparks, It may escape the learned clarks : But weel the watching lover marks, The kind love that's in the e'e. O this is no, &c.

Gloomy Winter's now awe

GLOOMY winter's now awa, Saft the westlin breezes blaw 'Mang the birks of Stanly shaw The mavis sings fa' cheerie, O.

Sweet the craw-flow'rs early bell, Decks Gleniffer's dewy dell; Blooming like thy bonny sel', My young, my artless dearie, O,

Come my lassie let us stay, O er Glenkilloch's sunny brae, Blithely spend the gowden day, Midst joys that never weary, O.

Tow ring o'er the Newton woods; Lavrocks fan the snaw-white clouds ; Siller saughs, wi nie buds, Adorn the bank sae bri, O.

Round the syivan-fairy nooks, Feath'ry breckans fringe the rocks, 'Neath the brae the burnie jouks, And ilka thing is cheerie, O.