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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW.
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My love built me a bon - nie bower, And
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ne'er did
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my true lov - er built for me.
My love built me a boimie bower,
And clad it a' wi' lily flower ;
A brawer bouir ye ne'er did see,
Than my true lover built for me.
There cam a man at mid-day hour,
He heard my song and he saw my bouir —
And he brocht armed men that nicht,
And brake my bouir and slew my knicht.
He slew my knicht, to me sae dear,
And burnt my bouir and drave my gear.
My servants a' for life did flee,
And left me in extremitie.
I sew'd his sheet and made my maen ;
I watch'd his corpse, myself alane ;
I watch'd by nicht and I watch'd by day ;
No living creature came that way.

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(30) Page 26 - Lament of the Border widow
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Songs of Scotland prior to Burns
DescriptionWith the tunes. Edited by Robert Chambers. Edinburgh ; London : W. & R. Chambers, 1890.
ShelfmarkGlen.118
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Form / genre: Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events: 1890 [Date printed]
Places: Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content: Folk songs
Songs (document genres)
Ballads
Scottish
Person / organisation: W. & R. Chambers Ltd. [Publisher]
Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]

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Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe.There are more than 330 publications contained in about 320 selected from the collection of John Glen (1833-1904). Also available are a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
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Special collections of printed music
DescriptionOver 400 volumes from three internationally renowned special collections of printed music. The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent excellent archives of 18th-19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The Hopkinson Verdi Collection contains contemporary and later editions of the works of Verdi, collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson.