THE FOREST MINSTREL. THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW. TUNE-Gilderoy. AN' art thou fled, my bonny boy, Wha now will love or care for me, I hop'd, when thou wert grown a man, To trae his looks in thine; An' saw, wi' joy, thy sparkling eye Wi' kindling vigour shine. I thought, when I was fail'd, I might But thou art fled, my bonny boy, Now clos'd an' set that sparkling eye! Thy breast is cauld as clay! An' a' my hope, an' a' my joy, Wi' thee are reft away. Ah! fain wad I that comely clay Reanimate again! But thou art fled, my bonny boy, The flower, now fading on the lee, Ere you revive again; For thou art fled, my bonny boy! An' left me here alane. THE FLOWER. O SOFTLY blow, thou biting blast, |