Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or, Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or, Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
Skinner, John, 1851-1925
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Happy in her lawland laddie ? I was she sae blythe and gawsie, As though IM ca'd the king my daddie. My laddie, was my heart's delight. Kind and canty was my Johnnie^ In liking him had I the wyte, Whan a' the warld ca'd him bonnie ? 11. Onr bndal day was set, and a' thing Ready made to pit 's togither, My tartan plaid, and mony bra' thipg I gat frae my honest mither^ A short fourteen days, Johnnie sware it, Wu'd make me a' his ain for erer, And right glad was I to heur it, We Slid now be parted... neyer, H 90 III But O ! there cam a wearie order^ About a thing they ca' militie ; Ye cam frae hyn ayont the border^ O ! waly fa' the chiel that feish ye ! Cam to tak my Johnnie frae me, Left me heve to moura about him| And till he b^ck again cum to me, I'll neyer easy be without him. IV. Sae ance I thought, till ae lang night. About my Johnnie I was dreamin, Whan i' my sleep I. saw him bright, Wi' mony gentlemen and wiraen 5 He took my hand afore them a^ And gae me kkudly kilMses pl«ti^^, A saxpence fyte he brak in twa, His words were sweet as oiiy dain^.
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