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Ilka lassie has her laddie, Nane they say ha'e I Yet a' the lads they smile on me When comin' thro' the rye.

I have heard the mavis singing, His love song to the morn; I have seen the dewdrops clinging To the rose just newly born; But a sweeter song has cheered me, At the ev'ning gentle close, And I've seen an eye still brighter Than the dewdrop on the rose; 'Twas they voice, my gentle Mary, And thine artless winning smile, That made this world an Eden, Bonnie Mary of Argyle.

Tho' thy voice may lose its sweetness, And thine eye its brightness too Tho' thy step may lose its fleetness, And thy hair its sunny hue, Still to me thou wilt be dearer Than all the world shall own I have loved thee for thy beauty But not for that alone I have watch'd thy heart, dear Mary, And its goodness was the wile That has made thee mine for ever Bonnie Mary of Argyle.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory; Now's the day and now's the hour, See the front of battle lour, See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and slavery.