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106 Wi' sic thoughts i' my mind,

Time through the world may gae,

And find my heart in twenty years

The same as 'tis to-day.

'Tis thoughts that bind the soul,

And keep friends i' the e'e;

And gin I think I see thee aye,

What can part thee and me!

[ down from the singing of Jamie, a natural who frequents the watering places of Dunblane and Bridge of Allan. We know not who is the author of the song, nor whether it has been before printed.—, "The auld mans mare's dead."]

[, a ploughman in the Kingsmuir, Fifeshire. Air, "The bonnie hawthorn."—Here first printed.]