'Gae hame, gae hame, my seven bauld For we left father and sisters at hame brothers! Gae hame and blaw your horn! Breaking their hearts for thee.' COLIN AND LUCY. THIS pathetic ballad was composed by Ticknell, the intimate friend of Addison, whose residence in Ireland at the time it was written has, probably, given to it an Irish locality. There is nothing national in the tale itself. From the vain bride (ah, bride no more!) The varying crimson fled, When, stretch'd before her rival's corse, She saw her husband dead. Then to his Lucy's new-made grave, Oft at their grave the constant hind But, swain forsworn, whoe'er thou art, KATHARINE JANFARIE. EVERY one that has read Marmion, (and who has not?) must remember the spirited ballad of “Young Lochinvar." It was from Katharine Janfarie that Scott took the idea of that exquisite little tale This version he called in his first edition, the "Laird of Lamington ;" and tradition speaks of an actual occurrence that gave rise to this and other similar songs. |
