"Oh, what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear? Oh, what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear?" "A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war, And a plaid across the manly breast that yet shall wear a star; A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war, And a plaid across the manly breast that yet shall wear a star." "Suppose, ah, suppose, that some cruel, cruel wound, Should pierce your Highland laddie, and all your hopes confound!" "The pipe would play a cheering march, the banners round him fly; The spirit of a Highland chief would lighten in his eye; The pipe would play a cheering march, the banners round him fly, And for his king and country dear with pleasure he would die!" "But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds; But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds. His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While, wide through all our Highland hills, his warlike name resounds; His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While, wide through all our Highland hills, his warlike name resounds." OH, MY LOVE, LEAVE ME NOT![20] AIR--_"Bealach na Gharraidh."_ Oh, my love, leave me not! Oh, my love, leave me not! Oh, my love, leave me not! Lonely and weary. Could you but stay a while, And my fond fears beguile, I yet once more could smile, Lightsome and cheery. Night, with her darkest shroud, Tempests that roar aloud, Thunders that burst the cloud, Why should I fear ye? Till the sad hour we part, Fear cannot make me start; Grief cannot break my heart Whilst thou art near me. Should you forsake my sight, Day would to me be night; Sad, I would shun its light, Heartless and weary. [20] From Albyn's "Anthology," vol. i. p. 42. Edinburgh, 1816, 4to. JOHN MAYNE. John Mayne, chiefly known as the author of "The Siller Gun," a poem descriptive of burgher habits in Scotland towards the close of the century, was born at Dumfries, on the 26th of March 1759. At the grammar school of his native town, under Dr Chapman, the learned rector, whose memory he has celebrated in the third canto of his principal poem, he had the benefit of a respectable elementary education; and having chosen the profession of a printer, he entered at an early age the printing office of the _Dumfries Journal_. In 1782, when his parents removed to Glasgow, to reside on a little property to which they had succeeded, he sought employment under the celebrated Messrs Foulis, in whose printing establishment he continued during the five following years. He paid a visit to London in 1785, with the view of advancing his professional interests, and two years afterwards he settled in the metropolis.