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THE YELLOW-HAIR'D LADDIE.

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RAMSAY.

TUNE-The Yellow-hair'd Laddie.

IN April, when primroses paint the sweet plain,
And summer approaching rejoiceth the swain,
The yellow-hair'd laddie would oftentimes go
To woods and deep glens where the hawthorn trees
grow.

There, under the shade of an old sacred thorn,
With freedom he sung his loves, evening and morn :
He sung with so soft and enchanting a sound,
That sylvans and fairies, unseen, danced around.

The shepherd thus sung: "Though young Maddie be fair,

Her beauty is dash'd with a scornful proud air;
But Susie was handsome, and sweetly could sing;
Her breath's like the breezes perfumed in the spring.

"That Maddie, in all the gay bloom of her youth,
Like the moon, was inconstant, and never spoke truth ;
But Susie was faithful, good-humour'd, and free,
And fair as the goddess that sprung from the sea.

"That mamma's fine daughter, with all her great dower,

Was awkwardly airy, and frequently sour."

Then sighing, he wish'd, would but parents agree,
The witty sweet Susie his mistress might be.*

From the Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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