Carolina Oliphant Poems

Saw ye ne'er a lanely lassie,
Thinkin' gin she were a wife,
The sun o' joy wad ne'er gae down,
...

Songs of my native land,
To me how dear!
Songs of my infancy
Sweet to mine ear!
...

I wish I ken'd my Maggie's mind,
If she's for me or Tammy;
To me she is but passing kind,
She's caulder still to Tammy.
...

Oh, some will tune their mournfu' strains,
to tell of hame-made sorrow,
...

Oh, the auld house, the auld house,
What tho' the rooms were wee!
...

Fair shone the rising sky,
The dewdrops clad wi' mony a dye,
Larks lilting pibrochs high,
To welcome day's returning.
...

The bonniest lass in a' the warld,
I've often heard them telling,
She's up the hill, she's down the glen,
She's in yon lonely dwelling.
...

Oh, this is my departing night,
Fareweel, fareweel, to ane an' a',
Alas! before the mornin's light,
Far maun I be frae ye a'.
...

Ye'er welcome, leddies, ane and a',
Ye'er welcome to our County Ha';
Sae weel ye look when buskit braw,
...

When Royal pow'r was hunted down,
And Cromwell bore the bell, sir,
How safe and sound lay Scotland's crown,
...