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What fweeter mufick wad ye hear,
Than hounds and beigles crying ?
The ftarted hare rins hard with fear,
Upon her fpeed relying.
But yet her flrength, it fails at length,
Nae bidding can flie borrow
In Stirrers field, C leek man or Hag%
And fighs to be in Yarrow.
For Rod-wood, Ringwood, Spoty, Shag,
With fight and fcent purfue her,
Till ah I her pith begins to flag,
Nae cunning can refcue her.
O'er dub and dyke, o'er feugh and fyke,
She'll rin the fields all tharow,
'Till fail'4 fhe fa's in Leader Haughs y
And bids farewell to Yarrow.
Sing ErJJington and Cowdenknows,
Where Homes had anes commanding i
And Drygrange with thy milk-white ews,
'Twixt Tweed and Leader flanding :
The bird that flees throw Rcedpath trees,
And Gledjkvood banks ilk morrow,
May chant and flng, Sweet Leader Haugks,
And bonny hovvms of Yarrow.
But minftrel Burn cannot aflwage
His grief, while life endureth,
To fee the changes of this age,
That fleeting time procureth ;
For mony a place Hands in hard cafe,
Where blyth fowk .kend nae forrow,
With Homes that dwelt on Leader fide,
And Scots that dwelt on Yarrow.
For the Sake .of Somebody.
FO R the fake of fomebody,
For the fake of fomebody
I cou'd wake a winter-night,
For the fake of fomebody : I am