The Book of Scottish Song/Eliza

Eliza.

[Burns.—Tune, "Gilderoy."—The heroine of this song, some say, was Elizabeth Miller, one of the "Mauchline Belles;" others avow that she was Elizabeth Black, afterwards Mrs. Stewart, a vintner in Alva; while John Gait is of opinion that the real lady was a relative of his own, named Elizabeth Barbour.]

From thee, Eliza, I must go,
And from my native shore;
The cruel fates between us throw
A boundless ocean's roar:
But boundless oceans, roaring wide
Between my love and me,
They never, never can divide
My heart and soul from thee.

Farewell, farewell, Eliza dear,
The maid that I adore!
A boding voice is in mine ear,
We part to meet no more.
But the last throb that leaves my heart,
While death stands victor by,
That throb, Eliza, is thy part,
And thine that latest sigh.

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