The Bush aboon Traquair

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The Bush aboon Traquair
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"This was first published in the Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724. (...) 'The Bush aboon Traquair,' says Mr. Robert Chambers, a native of the district, 'was a small grove of birches that formerly adorned the west bank of the Quair water, in Peebles-shire, about a mile from Traquair house, the seat of the Earl of Traquair. But only a few spectral-looking remains now denote the spot so long celebrated in the popular poetry of Scotland. Leafless even in summer, and scarcely to be observed upon the bleak hill-side, they form a truly melancholy memorial of what must once have been an object of great pastoral beauty, as well as the scene of many such fond attachments as that delineated in the following verses.'" —Alexander Whitelaw, The Book of Scottish Song (1843)

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Versions of The Bush aboon Traquair include:

"The Bush Aboon Traquair" in Maggy Lauder (n.d.)
"The Bush Aboon Traquire", in A Song, on the Grand Illumination in Glasgow (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Stirling
"The Bush Aboon Traquire", in Description of Pizzaro (1817), a chapbook printed in Stirling
"The Bush aboon Traquair" in The Melodist (1818), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
"The bush aboon Traquair" in Lovely Jean (1820), a chapbook printed in Stirling
"The Bush aboon Traquair" in Lovley Jean (1820), a chapbook printed in Stirling
"The bush aboon Traquair" in Rigs o' barley (1820), a chapbook printed in Stirling
"The Bush aboon Traquair" in The Book of Scottish Song (ed.) by Alexander Whitelaw (1843)