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Behold my Love, how green the Groves.
TUNE— Down the Burn, Davie.
Behold my love, how green the groves,
The primrose banks how fair ;
The balmy gales awake the flowers,
And wave thy flaxen hair.
The lav'rock shuns the palace gay,
An' o'er the cottage sings ;
For nature smiles as sweet, I ween,
To shepherds as to kings.
Let minstrels sweep the skilful string,
In lordly lighted ha',
The shepherd* stops his simple reed,
Blythe in the birken shaw.
The princely revel may survey
Oiu rustic dance wi' scorn ;
But are their hearts as light as ours
Beneath the milk-white thorn ?
The shepherd in the flow'ry glen,
In shepherd's phrase will woo %
The courtier tells a finer tale,
But is his heart as true >
Behold my Love, how green the Groves.
TUNE— Down the Burn, Davie.
Behold my love, how green the groves,
The primrose banks how fair ;
The balmy gales awake the flowers,
And wave thy flaxen hair.
The lav'rock shuns the palace gay,
An' o'er the cottage sings ;
For nature smiles as sweet, I ween,
To shepherds as to kings.
Let minstrels sweep the skilful string,
In lordly lighted ha',
The shepherd* stops his simple reed,
Blythe in the birken shaw.
The princely revel may survey
Oiu rustic dance wi' scorn ;
But are their hearts as light as ours
Beneath the milk-white thorn ?
The shepherd in the flow'ry glen,
In shepherd's phrase will woo %
The courtier tells a finer tale,
But is his heart as true >
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/90260964 |
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| Description | A selection of choice Scottish songs. Dunbar : T. Oliver for G. Miller, 1805. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.70 |
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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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