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In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin!
In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin!
Kate soon will be a woefu' woman!
Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg,
And win the key-stane of the brig:6
There at them thou thy tail may toss,
A running stream they dare na cross.
But ere the key-stane she could make,
The fient a tail she had to shake!
For Nannie, far before the rest,
Hard upon noble Maggie prest,
And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle;8
But little wist she Maggie's mettle-
Ae spring brought aff her master hale, 215
But left behind her ain grey tail:
The carlin claught her by the rump,
And left poor Maggie scarce a stump.

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Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa',

Let him follow me!

By oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!-
Let us do or die!

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MARY MORISON

O Mary, at thy window be,

It is the wished, the trysted hour! Those smiles and glances let me see,

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That make the miser's treasure poor: How blythely wad I bide the stoure, 5 A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure,

The lovely Mary Morison.

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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,?

Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;

My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,

Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

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Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird, 5
That sings upon the bough;

Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds Thou minds me o' the happy days,

thro' the glen,

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AE FOND KISS

Ae1 fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae farewell, and then forever!

Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, 5
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.

I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy;
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love forever.
Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met or never parted-
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

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Duncan fleeched,12 and Duncan prayed; (Ha, ha, the wooin o't!)

Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig,

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(Ha, ha, the wooin o't!)

Duncan sighed baith out and in,
Grat13 his een14 baith bleer't15 and blin',
Spak o' lowpin16 o'er a linn;17

Ha, ha, the wooin o't!

Time and chance are but a tide,
(Ha ha, the wooin o't!)

Slighted love is sair to bide, 18
(Ha, ha, the wooin o't!)
"Shall I, like a fool," quoth he,
"For a haughty hizzie19 die?

She may gae to-France for me!"
Ha, ha, the wooin o't!

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13 wept. 17 waterfall.

19 hussy.

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