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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
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seats of youth -ful pleasures ; There Love in smil - ing
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lan - guage speaks, There spreads his ros - y trea - sures.
Look where my dear Harnilla smiles,
Hamilla, lovely charmer !
See how with all their arts and wiles
The Loves and Graces arm her !
A blush dwells glowing on her cheeks,
Fair seats of youthful pleasures ;
There Love in smiling language speaks,
There spreads his rosy treasures.
O fairest maid, I own thy power,
I gaze, I sigh, I languish ;
Yet ever, ever will adore,
And triunij)h in my anguish.
But ease, dear charmer, ease my care,
And let my torments move thee :
As thou art fairest of the fair,
So I the dearest love thee.
BUSK YE, BUSK YE.
The refined society of Edinburgh, in the reign of George I.,
boasted of another poetical ornament besides Bobert Crawford,
in the person of William Hamilton of Bangour. An amiable
enthusiast in love and Jacobitism, he passed through a bachelor life
of fifty years, which might have been prolonged if he had not