On Miss Jessy Lewars 204 On the recovery of Jessy Lewars 204 Tam the Chapman 204 “Here’s a bottle and an honest friend” 205 “Tho’ fickle fortune has deceived me” 205 To John Kennedy 205 To the same 205 “There’s naethin’ like the honest nappy” 205 On the blank leaf of a work by Hannah More, presented by Mrs. C 206 To the Men and Brethren of the Masonic Lodge at Tarbolton 206 Impromptu 206 Prayer for Adam Armour 206 SONGS AND BALLADS Handsome Nell 207 Luckless Fortune 208 “I dream’d I lay where flowers were springing” 208 Tibbie, I hae seen the day 208 “My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border” 209 John Barleycorn. A Ballad 210 The Rigs o’ Barley 210 Montgomery’s Peggy 211 The Mauchline Lady 211 The Highland Lassie 211 Peggy 212 The rantin’ Dog the Daddie o’t 213 “My heart was ance as blithe and free” 213 My Nannie O 213 A Fragment. “One night as I did wander” 214 Bonnie Peggy Alison 214 Green grow the Rashes, O 214 My Jean 215 Robin 215 “Her flowing locks, the raven’s wing” 216 “O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles” 216 Young Peggy 216 The Cure for all Care 217 Eliza 217 The Sons of Old Killie 217 And maun I still on Menie doat 218 The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton 218 On Cessnock Banks 219 Mary 220 The Lass of Ballochmyle 220 “The gloomy night is gathering fast” 221 “O whar did ye get that hauver meal bannock?” 221 The Joyful Widower 221 “O Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad” 222 “I am my mammy’s ae bairn” 222 The Birks of Aberfeldy 222 Macpherson’s Farewell 223 Braw, braw Lads of Galla Water 223 “Stay, my charmer, can you leave me?” 224 Strathallan’s Lament 224 My Hoggie 224 Her Daddie forbad, her Minnie forbad 224 Up in the Morning early 225 The young Highland Rover 225 Hey the dusty Miller 225 Duncan Davison 226 Theniel Menzies’ bonnie Mary 226 The Banks of the Devon 226 Weary fa’ you, Duncan Gray 227 The Ploughman 227 Landlady, count the Lawin 228 “Raving winds around her blowing” 228 “How long and dreary is the night” 228 Musing on the roaring Ocean 229 Blithe, blithe and merry was she 229 The blude red rose at Yule may blaw 229 O’er the Water to Charlie 230 A Rose-bud by my early walk 230 Rattlin’, roarin’ Willie 230 Where braving angry Winter’s Storms 231 Tibbie Dunbar 231 Bonnie Castle Gordon 231 My Harry was a gallant gay 232 The Tailor fell through the bed, thimbles an’ a’ 232 Ay Waukin O! 232 Beware o’ Bonnie Ann 233 The Gardener wi’ his paidle 233 Blooming Nelly 233 The day returns, my bosom burns 234 My Love she’s but a lassie yet 234 Jamie, come try me 234 Go fetch to me a Pint O’ Wine 235 The Lazy Mist 235 O mount and go 235 Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw 235 Whistle o’er the lave o’t 236 O were I on Parnassus’ Hill 236 “There’s a youth in this city” 237 My heart’s in the Highlands 237 John Anderson, my Jo 237 Awa, Whigs, awa 238 Ca’ the Ewes to the Knowes 238 Merry hae I been teethin’ a heckle 239 The Braes of Ballochmyle 239 To Mary in Heaven 239 Eppie Adair 240