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THE SCOTTISH BORDER. 197
" When T was a boy just turned of nine,
" My uncle sent for me,
" To hunt, and hawk, and ride with him,
'' And keep him cumpanie.
There came a wind out of the north,
" A sharp wind and a snell ;
And a dead sleep came over me,
" And frae my horse I fell.
The Queen of Fairies keppit me,
" In yon green hill to dwell ;
And I'm a fairy, lyth and limb ;
*' Fair lady, view me well.
But we, that live in Fairy-land,
" No sickness know, nor pain ;
I quit my body when I will,
" And take to it again.
I quit my body when I please,
** Or unto it repair ;
We can inhabit, at our ease,
"In either earth or air.

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Volume 2
DescriptionVol. II .
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border
DescriptionConsisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition.
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J. F. Campbell Collection
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