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SCOTS SONGS. 317
But if thou turn a commonwealth,
I'll never love thee more. ' y
But if by fraud, or by confent, 25
Thy heart to ruin come,
I'll found no trumpet, as I wont,
Nor march by tuk of drum j
But hold my arms, like enligns up,
Thy falfehood to deplore, 30
And bitterly will figh and weep,
And never love thee more.
I'll do with thee as Nero did.
When Rome was fet on fire j
Not only all relief forbid, 35
But to a hill retire j
And fcorn to fhed a tear to fee,
The fpirit grow fo poor ;
But, fmiling, ling until I die,
I'll never love thee more. 40
Yet for the love I bore thee once,
Left that, thy name fliould die,
A monument of marble-ftone
The truth fnall teftifie ;
That every pilgrim paffing by, ^ j;
May pity and deplore
My cafe, and read the reafon why
I can love thee no more.
03
But if thou turn a commonwealth,
I'll never love thee more. ' y
But if by fraud, or by confent, 25
Thy heart to ruin come,
I'll found no trumpet, as I wont,
Nor march by tuk of drum j
But hold my arms, like enligns up,
Thy falfehood to deplore, 30
And bitterly will figh and weep,
And never love thee more.
I'll do with thee as Nero did.
When Rome was fet on fire j
Not only all relief forbid, 35
But to a hill retire j
And fcorn to fhed a tear to fee,
The fpirit grow fo poor ;
But, fmiling, ling until I die,
I'll never love thee more. 40
Yet for the love I bore thee once,
Left that, thy name fliould die,
A monument of marble-ftone
The truth fnall teftifie ;
That every pilgrim paffing by, ^ j;
May pity and deplore
My cafe, and read the reafon why
I can love thee no more.
03
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Antient and modern Scotish songs > Volume 1 > (329) Page 317 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.131 |
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| Description | Heroic ballads, &c. In two volumes. Edinburgh, Lawrie and Symington, 1791. The National Library of Scotland's Glen Collection only contains volume 1. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.131 |
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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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