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The evening star is up, my dear.
And oh ! the night is sweet.
Come through the heavy drops that bend
The grasses at your feet.
For I am young and I am strong
And well can work for two.
And ’tis a year, come Martinmas,
I’ve loved no lass but you.
And, in a year, come Martinmas,
Before the fields are sown,
I will not need to walk nor stray
Between the lights alone.
For then the cot beyond the farm
A happy man will hold,
A wife who wears a golden ring
To match her hair of gold.
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The evening star is up, my dear.
And oh ! the night is sweet.
Come through the heavy drops that bend
The grasses at your feet.
For I am young and I am strong
And well can work for two.
And ’tis a year, come Martinmas,
I’ve loved no lass but you.
And, in a year, come Martinmas,
Before the fields are sown,
I will not need to walk nor stray
Between the lights alone.
For then the cot beyond the farm
A happy man will hold,
A wife who wears a golden ring
To match her hair of gold.
66
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Verses > (78) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129139153 |
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| Description | By Violet Jacob. |
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| Shelfmark | T.9.f |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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