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Rh For, while life's dearest blood runs warm,

My thoughts frae her shall ne'er depart.

For, as most lovely is her form,

She has the truest, kindest heart.

[ by the late of Paisley, to the tune of "Banks of Spey."]

[ song appears in the fourth volume of Johnson's Museum, and there is every reason to believe, that it is a production of 's, founded on some older Jacobitical effusion. The tune of "Ye Jacobites by name" is very beautiful, and has been adapted to several songs, but to none with more success than the one entitled "My love's in Germanie," given elsewhere.]