Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Was my sweet Highland Mary.

Highland Mary.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost

That nipt my flower sae early.

Highland Mary.

It 's guid to be merry and wise,[450:2]

It 's guid to be honest and true,

It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause,

And bide by the buff and the blue.

Here 's a Health to Them that 's Awa'.