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She's fresh as the morning, the fairest in May ;
She's sweet as the ev'ning aniang the new hay ;
As blythe and as artless as the lamb on the lea,
And dear to my heart as the light to the e'e.
But ! she's an heiress — auld Robin's a laird,
And my daddie 6 has nocht but a cot-house and yard;
A wooer like me maunna' hope to come speed ;
The wounds I must hide that will soon be my dead. 8
The day comes to me, but delight brings me nane ;
The night comes to me, but my rest it is gane ;
I wander my lane 9 like a night-troubled ghaist, 10
And I sigh as my heart it wad " burst in my breast.
had she but been of a lower degree,
1 then might ha'e hoped she wad smiled upon me ;
0, how past descriving 18 had then been my bliss,
As now my distraction no words can express.
i Dwells.
7 Must not.
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12 Describing.
"Auld Rob Morris." This air appears in tablature in the Leyden MS. Lyra-Viol Book, mentioned in the
Note page 25 of this work. It differs a little from the sets given by Johnson and others. The set adopted by
the arranger for this work is nearly the one given in Watts' Musical Miscellany, 1730. The neglect of the
ordinary campass of voices, alluded to in Note page 19, occurs again in this air. The air was published in the
Orpheus Caledonius, in 1725, and in Watts' Musical Miscellany, 1730, vol. iii. p. 174, and in Craig's Select
Scottish Tunes, printed in the same year. Mr. D. Laing notices the air as occurring in Mr. Blaikie's MS., dated
1692, under the name of "Jock the Laird's Brother." In November 1792, Burns wrote for the air the words
here given. The two first lines only belong to the old ballad given in Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany.