Given in Hogg (Second Series), and reprinted in Poetical Remains of William Glen, with Memoir (1874). Written to the old tune, ‘Johnnie Faa.’
l. 12. lilt o’ dool. Song of grief.
22. maist. Almost.
38. fairly. Completely.
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Songs of the North, vol. i. (Cramer & Co., 1885). By permission of the author, who wrote the words to fit an old and stirring air with which he became acquainted when on a visit to the Hebrides.
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By permission of the author and the editor of The Celtic Monthly, in which publication (May, 1894) these verses first appeared.
IV.—IRELAND
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Lines 83–97 of The Deserted Village (1769).