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His father he frown’d on the love of his boyhood.
And O! his proud mother look’d cauld upon me;
But he follow’d me aye to my hame in the sheiling.
And the hills of Breadalbyn rang wild wi’our glee:
A’ the lang summer day, ’mid the heather and bracken,
I joy’d in the light o’ his bonnie blue e’e;
I little then thought that the wide western ocean
Would be rolling the day ’tween my laddie and me.
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When we plighted our faith by the cairn of the mountain.
The deer and the roe stood bride-maidens to me.
And my bride’s trying glass was the clear crystal fountain;—
What then was'the warld to my laddie and me?
So I look to the west when I gae to my rest.
That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be:
For far in the west is the lad I lo’e best,—
He’s seeking a hame for my bairnie and me.