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. TUNE-" MISS FORBES'S FAREWELL TO BANFF, OR ETTRICK BANKS." WAS even -the dewy fields were green, In every glen the mavis sang, All Nature listening seem'd the while, With careless step I onward stray'd, A maiden fair I chanc'd to spy; B Fair is the morn in flowery May, And sweet is night in Autumn mild; O, had she been a country maid, 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. |