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  Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green valleys below, Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods !


 * My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
 * My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer,
 * A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe—
 * My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!

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THOU ling'ring star with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallow'd grove, Where, by the winding Ayr, we met To live one day of parting love?  31