Angel's Morning Song to the Shepherd, Ode on hearing of the Death of Mr Pitt, DONALD MACDONALD. I PLACE this song the first, not on account of any intrinsic merit that it possesses,—for there it ranks rather low,—but merely because it was my first song, and exceedingly popular when it first appeared. I wrote it when a barefooted lad herding lambs on the Blackhouse Heights, in utter indignation at the threatened invasion from France. But after it had run through the Three Kingdoms, like fire set to heather, for ten or twelve years, no one ever knew or enquired who was the author.-It is set to the old air, “ Wood an' married an' a'.” My name it is Donald MDonald, I leeve in the Heelands sae grand; my Maker has land. Nae danger can fear me ava; Are either to conquer or fa'. А Brogues an' brochin an'a', What though we befriendit young Charlie ? An' reckonid our mountains his hame, 'Twas true that our reason forbade us; But tenderness carried the day ;- Sword an' buckler an'a', An' 0, I wad eagerly press him The keys o' the East to retain; For should he gie up the possession, We'll soon hae to force them again. |
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