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[ following song, otherwise called "The Days o' Langsyne," was written by, of whom we have spoken in a previous note. It has been sometimes erroneously ascribed to Dr. James Moor, professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. The "duke" alluded to in the second stanza was Willam duke of Cumberland, and the last line of that verse originally ran,

but the authoress afterwards struck out the name, justly judging that it could never be popular in Scotland, so long as the odious butcheries that succeeded Culloden were remembered.]

was the time when he fee'd wi' my father, O,

Happy were the days when we herded thegither, O,

Sweet were the hours when he row'd me in his plaidie, O,

And vow'd to be mine, my dear Highland laddie, O.

But, ah! waes me! wi' their sodgering sae gaudy, O,

The laird's wyl'd awa' my braw Highland laddie, O,

Misty are the glens and the dark hills sae cloudy, O,

That aye seem'd sae blythe wi' my dear Highland laddie, O.