There's Johnie o' the Buskie-glen, III. For Johnie o' the Buskie-glen, Ae blink o' him I wad na gie For Buskie-glen and a' his gear. IV. O thoughtless lassie, life's a faught, A hungry care's an unco care : Syne as ye brew, my maiden fair, Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill. V. gear will buy me rigs o' land, And gear will buy me sheep and kye; But the tender heart o' leesome luve, The gowd and siller canna buy. We may be poor, my Rob and I, Light is the burden luve lays on; Content and luve brings peace and joy, What mair hae queens upon a throne? SONG XLVIII. TURN AGAIN, THOU FAIR ELIZA. AIR. THE BONNY BRUCKET LASSIE. I. TURN again, thou fair Eliza, Ae kind blink before we part, Rew on thy despairing lover! Canst thou break his faithfu' heart! Turn again, thou fair Eliza; If to love thy heart denies, For pity hide the cruel sentence II. Thee, dear maid, hae I offended? Wha for thine wad gladly die! While the life beats in my bosom, Turn again, thou lovely maiden, III. Not the bee upon the blossom, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture That thy presence gi'es to me. SONG XLIX. O LUVE WILL VENTURE IN, &c. AIR-TWEEDSIDE. I. O LUVE will venture in where it dare na weel be seen, O luve will venture in where wisdom ance has been; But I will down yon river rove, amang the wood sae green, And a' to pu' a posie to my ain dear May. II. The primrose I will pu', the firstling o' the year, And I will pu' the pink, the emblem o' my dear, For she's the pink o' womankind, and blooms without a peer; And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May. |