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HE" Songs" of Burns form such a distinct feature of his writings, and have obtained such universal popularity, that

it has occurred to the publishers to issue them complete by themselves, in the convenient form of one of their Pocket Volumes.

They have been edited on the same plan as the corresponding volume of the "Poems," and, with that volume, comprise the entire poetical works of the great national poet of Scotland.

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TUNE-" MISS FORBES'S FAREWELL TO BANFF, OR ETTRICK BANKS."

WAS even

-the dewy fields were green,
On every blade the pearls hang;
The Zephyr wanton'd round the bean,
And bore its fragrant sweets alang:

In every glen the mavis sang,

All Nature listening seem'd the while,
Except where green-wood echoes rang,
Amang the braes o' Ballochmyle.

With careless step I onward stray'd,
My heart rejoic'd in Nature's joy,
When musing in a lonely glade,

A maiden fair I chanc'd to spy;
Her look was like the morning's eye,
Her air like Nature's vernal smile,
Perfection whisper'd passing by,
Behold the lass o' Ballochmyle!

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Fair is the morn in flowery May,

And sweet is night in Autumn mild;
When roving through the garden gay,
Or wandering in a lonely wild:
But Woman, Nature's darling child!
There all her charms she does compile ;
Ev'n there her other works are foil'd
By the bonnie lass o' Ballochmyle.

O, had she been a country maid,
And I the happy country swain,
Though shelter'd in the lowest shed
That ever rose on Scotland's plain!
Through weary winter's wind and rain,
With joy, with rapture, I would toil;
And nightly to my bosom strain

The bonnie lass o' Ballochmyle.

Then pride might climb the slippery steep, Where fame and honours lofty shine; And thirst of gold might tempt the deep, Or downward seek the Indian mine;

Give me the cot below the pine,

To tend the flocks or till the soil, And every day has joys divine

With the bonnie lass o' Ballochmyle.

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