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O POORTITH CAULD.
Words by BURNS. Key-note C minor.
O, POORTITH Cauld and restless love,
Ye wreek my peace between ye;
Yet poortith a' I could forgie,
An't werena for my Jeanie.
o, why should fate sic pleasures have,
Life's dearest bands untwining;
Or why sae sweet a flow'r as love
Depend on fortune's shining?
This warld's wealth, when I think on
Its pride, and a' the lave o't;
My curse on silly coward man,
That he should be the slave o't.
O, why, &c.
Her e'en, sae bonnie blue, betray
How she repays my passion ;
But prudence is her o'erword aye-
She talks of rank and fashion.
O, why, &c.
O, wha can prudence think upon,
And sic a lassie by him?
O, wha can prudence think upon,
And sae in love as I am ?
O, why, &c.
How blest the humble cotter's fate.
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth and state,
Can never make him eerie.
0, why, &c.
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THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
Key-note B flat.
NEAR Perth, as I wander'd the meadows among.
I saw a young lassie trip blithely along:
Her figure was graceful, and in her light waist
Some dew-dropping roses were carelessly placed.
She pluck'd off a rose from the stem of its birth,
And cried, " Take this rose from the fair maid of Perth."
She pluck'd off a rose, &c.
I told her I loved her sincerely; and then
I promised at moonlight to meet her again;
and we met where the burnies all silently glide,
And I told her I'd make her my ain bonnie bride :
And my vow I will keep, for beauty and worth
Are mine, if I marry the fair maid of Perth.
