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24 Thy dimpling cheek and deep-blue eye,

Where tender thought and feeling lie!

Thine eyelid like the evening cloud

That comes the star of love to shroud!

Each witchery of soul and sense,

Enshrin'd in angel innocence,

Combin'd to frame the fatal spell—

That blest—and broke my heart—Farewell!

[ beautiful song is the production of, author of the "Siller Gun," "Glasgow, a poem," &c. Mayne was a native of Dumfries, but spent the early part of his life in Glasgow, where he served an apprenticeship as a compositor under the celebrated printers, Foulis. He afterwards removed to London, and was long connected there with the Star daily newspaper. He died on the 14th March, 1836. "Logan Braes" was first printed in the Star Newspaper on the 23d May, 1789, and we believe consisted originally of only the first two stanzas, to which, indeed, the song, in singing, is generally limited. The four additional stanzas first appeared in the Pocket Encyclopedia of Songs, published at Glasgow in 1816, and are probably not by Mayne. The tune of "Logan Water," to which this and the two following songs are adapted, is of considerable antiquity, and, (before the production of Mayne) used to be sung to words of by no means a scrupulous character, beginning,

[ following words are by, author of the Seasons, and they appear in the Orpheus Caledonius so far back as 1725, attached to the tune of Logan Water.]

ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

An unrelenting foe to love,

And, when we meet a mutual heart,

Come in between, and bid us part—