I globe-flowers, cabbage-daisies. 2 moss. We'll pu' the daisies on the green, "There's up into a pleasant glen, A wee piece frae my father's tower, Which circling birks ha'e formed a bower: And love and kiss, and kiss and love." UP IN THE AIR. Now the sun's gane out o' sight, On my bonnie grey mare; And I see her yet, and I see her yet. The wind's drifting hail and snaw Nae starns keek3 through the azure slit, 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 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, And let us ha'e a blythsome bout. Dinna cheat, but drink fair, Huzza, huzza, and huzza, lads, yet! THE WIDOW. THE widow can bake, and the widow can brew, Then have at the widow, my laddie! 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 And has a rich jointure, my laddie. What could ye wish better, your pleasure to crown, Then till her, and kill her wi' courtesy dead, Wi' a bonnie gay widow, my laddie. Strike iron while it's het, if ye'd have it to wald; 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. 66 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 |