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Rh But time and my prayers may perhaps yet restore him,

Blest peace may restore my dear shepherd to me;

And when he returns, with such care I'll watch o'er him,

He never shall leave the sweet banks of the Dee.

The Dee then shall flow, all its beauties displaying,

The lambs on its banks shall again be seen playing,

While I with my Jamie am carelessly straying,

And tasting again all the sweets of the Dee.

[ Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, London, 1810.]

[ by. A fragment of this was contributed to Cromek's Remains as an old Jacobite production.]

[ by to the tune of "Lochaber no more." It appears in the 2d vol. of the Tea Table Miscellany, and also with the music in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1725. The air at an earlier period is said to have been called "King James's march to Ireland."]