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The Bonie Banks
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meet fecure, while here I wander preft with .care. Along the lonely banks ol
The Autumn mourns her rip ning corn
By early Winters ravage torn;
Acrofs her placid, azure fky,
She fees the fcowling tempeft fly :
GhiU runs my blood to hear it rave,
I think upon the ftormy wave,
Where many a danger I muft dare,
Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.
Tis not the furging billows roar,
'Tis not that fatal, deadly fhore;
Tho Death in ev ry fhape appear,
The wretched have no more to fear:
But round my heart the ties are bound
That heart tranfpiere'd with many a wo-
Thefe bleed afrelhjthofe ties I tear.Cund .
To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.
.Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales,
Her heathy moors and winding Vales;
"The fcenes where wretched fancy roves,
Purfuing paft, unhappy loves 1
Farewell, my frlendsi farewell, my foes!
My peace with thefe, my love with thofe-
The burfting tears my heart declare.
Farewell, the bonie.banks of Ayrl