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Let niggard bodies miss our joy—
Too meanly counting on the cost,—
The patriot flame to fan, say I,

Is never love or labour lost.

Then of our Day let's make the most ;—
Time never travels half so fleet
As when together Scotsmen toast
"The Day an' a' wha honour it!"

THE LAND EVER DEAREST TO ME.

AIR." Not the Swan on the Lake."

I SING of that land ever dearest to me,
The noblest in story-the fairest to see,-
A land where fans Freedom her holiest fires;

O, who would not love thee, dear land of my sires!

CHORUS Then hey for that country that never was slow To strike for the right a good death-dealing blow! When "Scotland" the toast is, and quaichs in full flow, Who would not squab as with a hearty hurro?

From Rome's baffled legions to Edward's proud host
No foe, save to rue it, e'er warr'd on her coast;

And only to rue it shall foe ever dare

On her rights to encroach, or her welfare to mar,
Then hey, &c.

What patriot, striking for freedom and right,

Can match with such heroes as Ellerslie's Knight,

The Randolph, the Douglas, the Bruce and the Græme? The bare thought of their deeds sets my blood in a flame!

Then hey, &c.

Who knows not how stoutly, when Truth did require,
Her Camerons and Knoxes faced faggot and fire-
Bequeathing to us the rich freedom of Mind,

Spite the prelate, the priest, and the devil combined!
Then hey, &c.

Just think of her minstrels-a glorious throng!
What strains so sublime as in Selma were sung?
Who lists not enraptured to Coila's sweet lyre,
Whose lays will enchant till this earth shall expire!
Then hey, &c.

Alas for the foeman who hastes not to yield

When" shoulder to shoulder" the Clans take the field! When duty demands them their might to display, The Titans might envy their deeds in the fray.

Then hey, &c.

O Albyn! my country so brave and so blest,

'Tis on thy dear bosom I'd take my last rest;

Oh, living or dying, give, give me to dwell

'Mid the music or streams, in some green Highland dell! Then hey, &c.

AVICH'S FAIRY BOWER.

The following song was suggested by an old favourite fairy 66 luinneag," the chorus of which runs thus :-

"Am bun a chruidh cha chaidil mi,

Am bun a chruidh cha bhi mi;

Am bun a chruidh cha chaidil mi,

'S mo leabaidh anns an t-sithean."

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The luinneag in question had its origin in a superstition not yet entirely dead in the Scottish Highlands, where for a pretty, mortal maiden to be wooed by a “leannan-sith -a courtship often ending by her being charmed away into some nearby abode of the "good people," never again to revisit her own home—was, up to the beginning of the present century, quite a popular belief among "the sea divided Gael" of both Ireland and Scotland.

IN vain to me shews Beltane fair
Its wealth of song and flower,—
The elves have wiled my Annie dear
To Avich's fairy bower.

CHORUS Ochoin a righ for Annie O,

Sweet Annie of Glengower!

Woe's me to think of Annie O
Within yon fairy bower.

They met her in the gloaming grey

Near Dovan's warlock tower,

Syne witched her with their music gay
To yonder fairy bower.

Ochoin a righ, &c.

Where oft together herding kye
I in my plaid did row her,
Alone I now may sing or sigh,
Sad thinking on yon bower.
Ochoin a righ, &c.

To tempt her stay, the fay folk may
A queenly state allow her,
And yet, withal, her heart be wae ;-
The sorrow take yon bower!
Ochoin a righ, &c.

With endless youth and beauty both,
'Tis said they can endow her;
Small joy to me, who thinks she'd be
More happy in Glengower.

Ochoin a righ, &c.

O that old Merlin's magic key
At my good service now were !
Then would this night her latest be
In Avich's fairy bower.

Ochoin a righ, &c.

THE LAND OF THE GREEN MAPLE LEAF.

Of all the fair lands you can name, boys,
There's one we may well rank the chief;
'Tis that we our own proudly claim, boys-
The Land of the Green Maple Leaf !

A patriot land well may be, boys,

That land of bright annals, though brief: Whoever would feel truly free, boys,

Should live 'neath the Green Maple Leaf.

To praises of moorlands and mountains
They well may grow readily deaf,
Who dwell by the lakes and the fountains
Fair-fringed by the Green Maple Leaf,
It is there that the woodman's axe bringeth
The lords of the forest to grief,
Till up to a paradise springeth

His home by the Green Maple Leaf.

He here who a bachelor liveth

May well be set down for a "cuif," Well shunned by each darling who giveth Love's kiss 'neath theGreen Maple Leaf. The heart that is proof to such graces As theirs, must be hard as a reef;Let's hope that such desperate cases Are rare 'neath the Green Maple Leaf.

In Lords and their lackeys dependant "Tis well that our list is but brief; The homage on tinsel attendant

They'd miss 'neath the Green Maple Leaf. Where Autumn the toils of the plough man Rewards with a fifty-fold sheaf,

The true lords of the soil are our yeomen

Who guard well the Green Maple Leaf.

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