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3S0 SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Awake, sweet Muse ! The breathing spring
With rapture warms : awake, and sing !
Awake and join the vocal throng,
And hail the morning with a song :
To Nannie raise the cheerful lay ;
O, bid her haste and come away ;
In sweetest smiles herself adorn,
And add new graces to the morn !
O look, my love ! on every spray
A feather'd warbler tunes his lay ;
'Tis beauty fires the ravish'd throng,
And love inspires the melting song :
Then let the raptured notes arise :
For beauty darts from Nannie's eyes ;
And love my rising bosom warms,
And fills my soul with sweet alarms.
Oh, come, my love ! Thy Colin's lay
"With rapture calls : 0, come away !
Come, while the Muse this wreath shall twine
Around that modest brow of thine.
O ! hither haste, and with thee bring
That beauty blooming like the spring,
Those graces that divinely shine,
And charm this ravish'd heart of mine !
PINKIE HOUSE.
This song appears in Herd's Collection, 1776, being appar-
ently designed as an improvement upon one of David Mallet's,
beginning ' As Sylvia in a forest lay,' which had been printed
in the Tea-table Miscellany and Orpheus Caledonius, as to the
tune of Rothes's Lament or Pinkie House. The present song is
believed to have been a composition of Joseph Mitchell, a bard
of medium merit, who flourished in Edinburgh in the reign of
George II.