...Jemmy die ? And why do I live to fay waes me i 'My father' argued fair, tho' my mother didna fpeak, She looked in my face till my heart was like to break; So they gi'ed him my hand, tho' my heart was- in the fea, And auld Robin Grey is gudeman to me. I had...

...Jenny die? And why do I live to say, waes me ? Auld Robin argued sair, though my milher didua speak, She looked in my face till my heart was like to break, SP they gied him my hand, tho* my heart was at I hadna beeo a wife weeks but only four, When sitting...

...my Jamie at the sea, And Auld Robin Gray came courtin' to me. " My faither urged me sair, my mitber didna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break ; So I gied him my hand, though my heart was at the sea, And Auld Robin Cray is gudeman to me." Here...

...loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair! " My father pressed me sair, Though my mother did na' speak ; But she looked in my face Till my heart was like to break." . The irksomeness of the situations, the sense of painful dependence, is excessive ; and yet the sentiment...

...estimation, as that, I may say, in the words of a melody of the country of bards, * * * * My mother did not speak, . But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break ; So I gave him my hand, * * • * But here terminates the analogy between the love-lorn Jenny and...

...strongly-worded description I ever read. The couplet, too, " My father pressed me sair — my mither didna speak, " But she looked in my face, till my heart was like to break." shews the truest knowledge of the human heart, and of womanly feeling. And the music in which this...

...Beautifully is this importunity pictured in that touching song called " Auld Robiti Gray." " My mitlier didna speak, But she looked in my face Till my heart was nigh to break." Now there was no such species of tender worrying as this in Signora Rivolta's conduct...

...wrack— why dlclun Jamie die, Or why am 1 spared to cry wae is me ? My father urged me sair — my mither — my heart was in the sea — Aud so Kobiu Gray lie wus guiduian to me. I hadna been his wife a week...

...notice, if it were only on account of these two lines : — " My Father argued sair, though my Mither didna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break." There is also in " Lady Ann Bothwetfs Lament," a touch of unaffected nature and pathos of the same...

...it were only on account of these two lines : — " My Father argued sair, though my Mither iliilna speak, But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break." There is also in " Lady Ann Bothvcelfs Lament," a touch of unaffected nature and pathos of the same...