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Rh Through regions remote in vain do I rove,

And bid the wide ocean secure me from love!

Oh, fool! to imagine that aught could subdue

A love so well-founded, a passion so true!

Oh, what, &c.

Alas! tis too late at thy fate to repine;

Poor shepherd, Amynta can never be thine:

Thr tears are all fruitless, thy wishes are vain.

The moments neglected return not again.

Oh, what, &c.

[ is another production of, written in memory of Colonel James Gardiner, who fell at the battle of Prestonpans, in September, 1745. It may claim singularity as one of the few songs of the period not on the Jacobite side. The "Fanny fair," mentioned in the first stanza, was a daughter of the Colonel's, afterwards Mrs. Richmond Inglis, who died at Edinburgh in 1795. She was authoress of a poem called "Anna and Edgar, or Love and Ambition," published at Edinburgh in 1781, 4to. The poem of Colonel Gardiner is said to have been originally set to the tune of Barbara Allan, but it appears in Johnson's Museum to an old tune called Sawnie's Pipe.]

[ beautiful and affecting song was the composition of the noble-minded daughter of Sir Patrick Home, (afterwards created Earl of Marchmont,) and wife of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerviswood, in Lanarkshire. was born at Redbraes castle in 1663; was married in 1692; and died at London in 1746. Her Memoirs, by her eldest daughter, Lady Murray of Stanhope, were published posthumously at Edinburgh in 1822. The song appears in the Orpheus Caledonius, printed in 1723, and also in the fourth volume of the Tea-Table Miscellany, printed some years later.]

was anes a may, and she loo'd na men:

She biggit her bonnie bower doun i' yon glen;

But now she cries Dool, and well-a-day!

Come doun the green gate, and come here away.

But now she cries, &c.