46. After this stanza are omitted:
52
The heavens were black, the night was dark,
And dreary was the place,
But Janet stood with eager wish
Her lover to embrace.
53
Betwixt the hours of twelve and one
A north wind tore the bent,
And straight she heard strange elritch sounds
Upon that wind which went.
47. After this stanza are omitted:
55
Their oaten pipes blew wondrous shrill,
The hemlock small blew clear,
And louder notes from hemlock large,
And bog-reed, struck the ear;
But solemn sounds, or sober thoughts,
The fairies cannot bear.
56
They sing, inspired with love and joy,
Like skylarks in the air;
Of solid sense, or thought that's grave,
You'll find no traces there.
57
Fair Janet stood, with mind unmoved,
The dreary heath upon,
And louder, louder waxd the sound
As they came riding on.
58
Will o Wisp before them went,
Sent forth a twinkling light,
And soon she saw the fairy bands
All riding in her sight.
b 6-12 is a fragment of 'The Broomfield-Hill,' introduced by a stanza formed on the sixth, as here given:
5.
And she's away to Carterhaugh,
And gaed beside the wood,
And there was sleeping young Tamlane,
And his steed beside him stood.