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OR, CALEDONIA!? WAltBLEK. ^3^
Thou tells o' never-ending care ;
O* speechless grief, and dark de^spair !
For pity's sake, sweet bird, nae mair :
Or my poor heart is broken ! Burns,
RAB RORYSON^S BONNET.
Tune — The auld mfe o the glen.
Ye'll a' hae heard tell o' Rab Roryson's bonnet,
Yell a' hae heard tell o' Rab Roryson's bonnet,
*Twas no for itsel', 'twas the head that was in it,
Gar'd a' bodies talk o' Rab Roryson's bonnet.
Tliis bonnet, that theekit his wonderfu' head,
Was his shelter in winter, in summer his shade.
And, at kirk or at market, or bridals, I ween,
A braw gawcier bonnet there never was seen.
Wi' a round rosy tap, like a raeikle blackboyd,
It was sloush'd just a kening on either hand side,
Some maintain'd it was black, some maintain'd it
was blue,
It had something o' baith as a body may trew.
Bnt, in sooth, I assure you, for ought that I saw,
Still his bonnet ha;d naething uncommon ava,
Though the haill parislv talk'd o' Rab Eorysori's
bonnet, ^
Twas a' for tlie marvdloug h§a^ tliat wa« in it.