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I globe-flowers, cabbage-daisies.

2 moss.

We'll pu' the daisies on the green,
The lucken-gowans1 frae the bog;
Between hands now and then we'll lean,
And sport upon the velvet fog2.

"There's up into a pleasant glen,

A wee piece frae my father's tower,
A canny, saft, and flowery den,

Which circling birks ha'e formed a bower:
Whene'er the sun grows high and warm,
We'll to the cauler shade remove,
There will I lock thee in my arm,

And love and kiss, and kiss and love."

UP IN THE AIR.

Now the sun's gane out o' sight,
Beet the ingle1, and snuff the light:
In glens the fairies skip and dance,
And witches wallop o'er to France,
Up in the air

On my bonnie grey mare;

And I see her yet, and I see her yet.

The wind's drifting hail and snaw
O'er frozen hags like a foot-ba',

Nae starns keek3 through the azure slit,
It's cauld and mirk4 as ony pit.

The man i' the moon

Is carousing abune,

D'ye see, d'ye see, d'ye see him yet?

Tak' your glass to clear your een,
It's the elixir heals the spleen;
Baith wit and mirth it will inspire,
And gently puffs the lover's fire.
Up i' the air,

It drives away care,

Ha'e wi' ye, ha'e wi' ye, and ha'e wi' ye, lads, yet.

I mend the fire.

2 broken, pitted mosslands.

3 stars peep.

4 dark.

1 Close.

Steek the doors, keep out the frost,
Come, Willy, gie's about your toast,
Till't lads, and lilt it out,

And let us ha'e a blythsome bout.
Up wi't there, there,

Dinna cheat, but drink fair,

Huzza, huzza, and huzza, lads, yet!

THE WIDOW.

THE widow can bake, and the widow can brew,
The widow can shape, and the widow can sew,
And mony braw things the widow can do;

Then have at the widow, my laddie!
Wi' courage attack her baith early and late;

To kiss her and clap her ye maunna be blate:

I

Speak weel, and do better: for that's the best gate11 way. To win a young widow, my laddie.

The widow she's youthfu', and never ae hair
The waur o' the wearing, and has a guid skair2
O' everything lovely; she's witty and fair,

And has a rich jointure, my laddie.

What could ye wish better, your pleasure to crown,
Than a widow the bonniest toast in the town,
Wi' naething but draw in your stool and sit down,
And sport wi' the widow, my laddie?

Then till her, and kill her wi' courtesy dead,
Though stark love and kindness be a' ye can plead ;
Be heartsome and airy, and hope to succeed

Wi' a bonnie gay widow, my laddie.

Strike iron while it's het, if ye'd have it to wald;
For fortune aye favours the active and bauld,
But ruins the wooer that's thoughtless and cauld,
Unfit for the widow, my laddie.

2 share.

3 to.

ROBERT CRAWFORD.

1695-1732.

Among the "ingenious young gentlemen" who were contributors to the Tea-Table Miscellany in 1724, one of the most distinguished was Robert Crawford. Four songs in that collection--" The Bush abune Traquair," "The Broom of the Cowdenknowes," "One day I heard Mary say," and "My Dearie, if thou dee -were from his pen, while a fifth, entitled "Sweet Susan," is generally ascribed to him; and to the Orpheus Caledonius, published shortly afterwards, he contributed other three "Tweedside,' "Doun the burn, Davie lad," and "The bonniest lass in a' the warld." In Johnson's Musical Museum there is also a song by Crawford, set to the tune of "Allan Water.

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Nearly all that is known of the poet is given by Chambers in his Songs of Scotland, prior to Burns. Crawford was the second son of Patrick Crawford of Drumsoy in Renfrewshire. His elder brother Thomas acted as secretary to the embassy to France under Lord Stair, and was afterwards appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the French Court. It was probably owing to this fact that Robert Crawford spent several years in France; and he is understood to have died in returning from that country in 1732. Little is known of the personality of the poet. Ramsay of Ochtertyre, writing to Burns in 1787, mentions that he had just conversed with a Colonel Edmondstone, a cousin of Robert Crawford, who remembered attending the poet's funeral fifty-five years before. 'Crawford," said Edmondstone in the cant phrase of the time, "was a pretty young man. Of the songs by this pretty gallant in the Orpheus Caledonius two were addressed to ladies. "The bonniest lass in a' the warld" was indited to Miss Anne Hamilton, and "Tweedside," the poet's best-known piece, is believed by tradition to have had for its object Miss Mary Scott, second daughter of John Scott of Harden. Colonel Edmondstone, it is true, stated that the latter song was addressed to a Mary Stewart of the Castlemilk family, but internal evidence seems to be against this supposition, and a remark of Sir Walter Scott makes the matter certain. Whether or not anything more than mere poetic feeling underlay either of these compositions can hardly now be discovered; but when the Orpheus Caledonius appeared in 1725 Mary Scott must have been in her freshest bloom. An earlier Mary Scott, daughter of Scott of Dryhope of the time of

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