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JOY OF MY HEART.*
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Verses by Dr. Robert Couper, of Fochabers.
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* This song, with its melody, appears mAlhyn's Antkologtj, vol. ii., 1818. In Smith's Scottish Minstrel vce find that " Lady G. Gordon
picked up this beautiful air in the Highlands. The verses were ivritten by Dr. Couper, at her desire, on the Marquis of Huntly wlien in
Holland." Tlie complete poem consists of five verses. Robert Couper was born at Balsier. parisli of Sorbir, Wigtonshire, in 1750. He
resided some years in Virginia, America, but owing to the breaking out of the War of Independence, he returned to this country in 1T76.
He took his diploma as a Surgeon in the College of Glasgow, and settled in Fochabers as Physician to the Duke of Gordon in 1788. Ue left
Fochabers in 1S06, and died In Wigton in 1S18. He was M.D. and F.R.S.E.