...leaves him ? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me ; Dark despair around benights me. I 'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy : But...parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure,...

...him ? Me, nao cheerfu' twinkle lights me ;— Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy : But...her ; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met—or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted...

...furnished Byron with a motto, and Scott has said that that motto is " worth a thousand romances." " Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met,—or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted." The " Nancy" of this moving strain was,...

...furnished Byron with a motto, and Scott has said that that motto is " worth a thousand romances." • . " Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken.hearted." " Nancy" of this moving strain vraV, according to Cunningham, another fair and somewhat frail dame...

...contain the essence of a thousand love-stories — Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest 1 Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure,...

...leaves him ? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me ; Dark despair around benights me. Ill ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy : But...her ; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'e; been...

...leaves him ? Me пае cheerfu' twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy : But to see her, was to lose her : Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lovM sae kindly. Had we never lov'd sae blindly....

...contain the essence of a thousand love-stories — Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had \vc never lov'd fac blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare tliee weel, thou first and fairest I Fare tliee weel, thou best and dearest'. Thine be ilka joy and...

...him ? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me ; Dark despair around benights me. II. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy ; But...Love but her, and love for ever. — Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been...

...exquisitely affecting stanza contains the essence of a thousand love tales : — " Had we never loved sac kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met...never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.*' There are one or two political songs, which, for any wit or humour they contain, might have been very...