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THE YOUNG LAIRD AND EDINBURGH KATIE. 323
Should I be called where cannons roar,
Where mortal steel may wound me,
Or cast upon some foreign shore,
Where dangers may surround me ;
Yet hopes again to see my love,
To feast on glowing kisses,
Shall make my cares at distance move,
In prospect of such Misses.
In all my soul there 's not one place
To let a rival enter :
Since she excels hi ev'iy grace,
In her my love shall centre.
Sooner the seas shall cease to flow,
Their waves the Alps shall cover,
On Greenland ice shall roses grow,
Before I cease to love her.
The neist time I gang o'er the muir,
She shall a lover find me ;
And that my faith is firm and pure,
Though I left her behind me ;
Then Hymen's sacred bonds shall chain
My heart to her fair bosom ;
There, while my being does remain,
My love more fresh shall blossom.
THE YOUNG LAIED AND EDINBUKGH KATIE.
This song of Eamsay's introduces us to the social life of Edin-
burgh, at a time when it was confined to the Old Town, and
when the Hill — that is, the Castle Hill — was the only place
available for a lover's promenade ; when, moreover, young ladies
were accustomed, out of doors, to screen their faces with a plaid,
the equivalent of the Spanish mantilla.