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AULD ROBIN GRAY

My heart it said nay; I looked for Jamie back; But the wind it blew high, and the ship it was a wrack,

His ship it was a wrack- why didna Jamie dee, Or why do I live to cry, Wae 's me?

My father urgit sair: my mother didna speak; But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break:

They gi'ed him my hand, but my heart was at the

sea:

Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me.

I hadna been a wife a week but only four,
When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door,
I saw my Jamie's wraith, for I couldna think it

he

Till he said, "I'm come hame to marry thee."

Oh, sair, sair did we greet, and muckle did we say;

We took but ae kiss, and I bad him gang away:
I wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee;
And why was I born to say, Wae's me!

I

gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin;

I daurna think on Jamie, for that waud be a sin;
But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be,

For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.
Lady Anne Lindsay.

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You see the city from the hill,
It lies beyond the mountains blue;
And yet to reach it one must still
Five long and weary leagues pursue,
And, to return, as many more.
Ah! had the vintage plenteous grown!
The grape withheld its yellow store:
I shall not look on Carcassonne,
I shall not look on Carcassonne.

They tell me every day is there
No more nor less than Sunday gay;
In shining jewels and garments fair
The people walk upon their way.
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon,
A bishop, and two generals:
I do not know fair Carcassonne,
I do not know fair Carcassonne.

that we

The curé's right; he says
Are ever wayward, weak, and blind;
He tells us in his homily

Ambition ruins all mankind.

Yet could I there two days have spent,
While still the autumn sweetly shone,
Ah me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne,
When I had looked on Carcassonne.

Thy pardon, father, I beseech,
In this my prayer if I offend;

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