Maggie coost her head fu' heigh,"
Look'd asklent and unco skeigh,c
Gartd poor Duncan stand abeigh ;e
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

Duncan fleech'd, and Duncan pray'd;
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

Duncan sigh'd baith out and in,
Grat his een baith bleer't and blin',
Spak o' louping owre a linn ;1
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

Time and chance are but a tide,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Slighted love is sair to bide!

Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

'Shall I, like a fool,' quoth he,
For a haughty hizzie die?
She may gae to-France for me!'
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

How it comes-let doctors tell,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Meg grew sick-as he grew well,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

Something in her bosom wrings,
For relief a sigh she brings :
And oh, her een, they spak sic things!
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

Duncan was a lad o' grace,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,

Maggie's was a piteous case,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

a Fyll high.

d Made.

z Cast, or carried.

b Asquint.

e At a shy distance.

c Very proud.

f Entreated.

A well-known rock in the frith of Clyde. Wept till his eyes were sore and dim. iTalked of jumping over a precipice, or waterfall.

Duncan could na be her death,
Swelling pity smoor'dk his wrath,
Now they're crousel and cantiem baith,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

THE COUNTRY LASSIE.

"I wish Burns had written more of his songs in this lively and dramatic way. The enthusiastic affection of the maiden, and the suspicious care and antique wisdom of the "dame of wrinkled eild," animate and lengthen the song without making it tedious. "Robie" has indeed a faithful and eloquent mistress, who vindicates true love and poverty against all the insinuations of one whose speech is spiced with very pithy and biting proverbs.' Allan Cunningham. Tune.-John, come kiss me now.

IN simmer when the hay was mawn,
And corn wav'd green in ilka field,
While clover blooms white o'er the lea,
And roses blaw in ilka bield ;P

Blythe Bessy in the milking shiel,

Says, I'll be wed, come o 't what will ;'
Out spak a dame in wrinkled eild,
'O' guid advisement comes nae ill.
'It's ye hae wooers monie ane,

And, lassie, ye 're but young, ye ken;
Then wait a wee,s and cannie walet
A routhie butt, a routhie ben":"
There's Johnnie o' the Buskie-glen,
Fu' is his barn, fu' is his byre;
Tak this frae me, my bonnie hen,
It's plenty beetsw the lover's fire.'

For Johnnie o' the Buskie-glen,
I dinna care a single flie;
He lo'es sae weel his craps and kye,
He has nae love to spare for me:
But blythe's the blink o' Robie's ee,
And weel I wat he lo'es me dear:

Ae blink o' him I wad na gie

For Buskie-glen and a' his gear.
'O thoughtless lassie, life's a faught;
The canniest gate, the strife is sair;b
But ay fu'-han't is fechtin' best,c

A hungry care 's an uncod care:
But some will spend, and some will spare,
An' wilfu' folk maun hae the will;
Synee as ye brew, my maiden fair,

Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill."t

'O, gear will buy me rigs o'land,

And gear will buy me sheep and kye;
But the tender heart o' leesomes love,
The gowd and siller canna buy.
We may be poor-Robie and I,

Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy,
What mair hae queens upon a throne?'

BESSY AND HER SPINNING WHEEL. Tune.-Bottom of the Punch Bowl.

Written for Johnson's Musical Museum.' The old song of the Lass and her Spinning Wheel,' though animated by love, must have suggested to Burns the idea of this eulogy to household thrift. It is a pity that there is now so little to do-in Scotland at least for 'spinning wheels.'

O LEEZE me1 on my spinning wheel,
O leeze me on my rock and reel ;
Frae tap to tae that cleeds me bien,k
And haps me fiel' and warm at e'en'
I'll set me down and sing and spin,
While laigh descends the simmer sun,
Blest wi' content, and milk and meal-
O leeze me on my spinning wheel.

y Wealth. z Fight.

b Sore.

a Gentlest manner. c 'Tis always best to fight full-handed. e Since. f Ale. g Pleasant. k Clothes me plentifully.

d Strange, or very great.

i A phrase of attachment.
7 Covers me soft.

m Low.

I'll set me down and sing and spin. While laigh descends the samer sun. Blest wi' content, and milk and mealO leczo me on my spinning wheer!