SONG XXVI. RAVING WINDS AROUND HER BLOWING. AIR.-M'GREGOR OF RUARA'S LAMENT. I. RAVING winds around her blowing, "Farewell, hours that late did measure II. "O'er the past too fondly wandering, "On the hopeless future pondering; Chilly grief my life-blood freezes, "Fell despair my fancy seizes. "Life, thou soul of every blessing, The occasion on which this poem was written, has not been ascertained. It is known to be an early composition. His own sorrows, or those of his friends, at all times called forth the most sublime effusions of woe from our ini. mitable bard. SONG XXI. MUSING ON THE ROARING OCEAN. AIR.--DRCIMION DUBH. I. MUSING on the roaring ocean, II. Hope and fear's alternate billow III. Ye whom sorrow never wounded, IV. Gentle night, do thou befriend me; Downy sleep, the curtain draw Spirits kind, again attend me, Talk of him that's far awa! SONG XXVIII. BLYTHE, BLYTHE AND MERRY, &c. AIR. OPEN THE DOOR. Blythe, blythe and merry was she, Blythe was she but and ben; Blythe by the banks of Ern, And blythe in Glenturit glen. I. By Oughtertyre grows the aik, On Yarrow banks the birken shaw ; But Phemie was a bonier lass Than braes o' Yarrow ever saw. II. Her looks were like a flow'r in May, Her smile was like a simmer morn; She tripped by the banks of Ern, As light's a bird upon a thorn. |