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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
or poem ; but the probability, of course, is, that she did not
restrict herself to this one hapj)y effusion.
Contemporary with Miss Elliot, there lived in Edinburgh
another lady of family, possessed like her of most attractive
social qualities, and a frequent and ready writer of verses. Born
Alison Rutherford of Fernylee, Selkirkshire, she married, in
1 73 1, Mr Patrick Cockburn, advocate, whom she long survived.
She was also familiar with the old ballad of The Floivers of the
Forest, and some years, it is believed, before Miss Elliot's song
was written, composed one to the same tune, and with the same
burden, not referring to Flodden, but to a crisis of a monetary
nature, when seven good lairds of the Forest were reduced to
insolvency, in consequence of imprudent speculations. Mrs
Cockburn's sono,- was as follows :
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I've seen the smil-ing of For -tune be -guil - ing,
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felt all its fa-vours and found its de - eay ;
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Sweet was its bless - ing, kind its ca - ress - ing, But
I've seen the fo - rest a - dor - ned the fore - most, With