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Page lii - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave: Weel pleased to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love! where love like this is found! O heartfelt raptures! bliss beyond compare! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the...
Page 2 - I look down on a' the town, — That I look down upon a crown. My Peggy smiles sae kindly, It makes me blyth and bauld ; And naething gi'es me sic delight As wauking of the fauld. My Peggy sings sae saftly, When on my pipe I play, By a' the rest it is confest, — By a' the rest, that she sings best.
Page xxvii - BE sure ye dinna quat the Grip Of ilka Joy when ye are young, Before auld Age your Vitals nip, And lay ye twafald o'er a Rung. SWEET Youth's a...
Page xlviii - A flock of lambs, cheese, butter, and some woo, Shall first be said to pay the laird his due ; Syne a' behin's our ain. Thus without fear, With love and rowth we thro' the warld will steer ; And when my Pate in bairns and gear grows rife, He'll bless the day he gat me for his wife. JENNY. But what if some young...
Page xlviii - Wi' dimpled cheeks and twa bewitching een, Should gar your Patie think his half-worn Meg, And her kenned kisses, hardly worth a feg? Peggy. Nae mair o' that — Dear Jenny, to be free, There's some men constanter in love than we : Nor is the ferly great, when nature kind Has blest them wi' solidity o
Page 87 - I'll sing you ane, the newest that I hae. SANG XXI. TUNE — " Corn-riggs are bonny." My Paty is a lover gay, His mind is never muddy, His breath is sweeter than new hay, His face is fair and ruddy ; His shape is handsome, middle size ; He's...
Page 7 - tween ilka smack, But weel I kend she meant nae as she spak. Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her .gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your thumb: Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her mood; Gae woo anither, and she'll gang clean wood.
Page 13 - And then he speaks with sic a taking art, His words they thirle like music thro' my heart. How blythly can he sport, and gently rave, And jest at feckless fears that fright the lave ! Ilk day that he's alane upon the hill, He reads fell books that teach him meikle skill. He is — but what need I say that or this ? I'd spend a month to tell you what he is ! In a...
Page liii - My bonny Meg, come here, I ferly wherefore ye're sae soon asteer ; But I can guess, ye're gawn to gather dew.
Page lxxvii - O ! teach our steps to find the secret cell, Where, with thy sire, Content, thou lov'st to dwell. Or say, dost thou, a duteous handmaid, wait Familiar at the chambers of the great? Dost thou pursue the voice of them that call To noisy revel, and to midnight ball ? O'er the full banquet when we feast our soul, Dost thou inspire the mirth, or mix the bowl? Or, with th' industrious planter dost thou Conversing freely in an evening walk?
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy |
| Author | Allan Ramsay |
| Publisher | W. Gowans, 1852 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Nov 27, 2006 |
| Length | 129 pages |
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