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Have I not graven our loves
On every tree :
In yonder fpreading groves,
Tho s falfe thou be :
Was not a fo'emn oath
Plighted betwixt us both,-
Thou thy faith, I my troth,
Conftant to be.
Some gloomy place I'll find,
Some doleful made,
Where neither fun nor wind
E'er entrance had :
Into that hollow cave,
There will I figh and rave,
Becaufe thou dofl behave
So faithlefly.
Wild fruit {hall be my meat,
I'll drink the fpring,
Cold earth fhall be my feat :
For covering
I'll have the ftarry sky
My head to canopy,
Until my foul on hy
Shall fpread its wing.
HI have no funeral f re,
Nor tears for me :
No grave do I defire,
Nor obfequies :
The courteous Red-breaft he
With leaves will cover me,
And iing my elegy
With doleful voice.
And when a ghoft I am,
I'll vifit thee,
O thou deceitful dame,
Whofe cruelty
Has
Have I not graven our loves
On every tree :
In yonder fpreading groves,
Tho s falfe thou be :
Was not a fo'emn oath
Plighted betwixt us both,-
Thou thy faith, I my troth,
Conftant to be.
Some gloomy place I'll find,
Some doleful made,
Where neither fun nor wind
E'er entrance had :
Into that hollow cave,
There will I figh and rave,
Becaufe thou dofl behave
So faithlefly.
Wild fruit {hall be my meat,
I'll drink the fpring,
Cold earth fhall be my feat :
For covering
I'll have the ftarry sky
My head to canopy,
Until my foul on hy
Shall fpread its wing.
HI have no funeral f re,
Nor tears for me :
No grave do I defire,
Nor obfequies :
The courteous Red-breaft he
With leaves will cover me,
And iing my elegy
With doleful voice.
And when a ghoft I am,
I'll vifit thee,
O thou deceitful dame,
Whofe cruelty
Has
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Tea-table miscellany, or, A collection of choice songs, Scots and English > (163) Page 135 |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87934189 |
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| Description | In four volumes. The tenth edition, by Allan Ramsay. [In fact a volume of four parts with continuous pagination and register]. Imperfect: wanting illustration. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.108 |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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