Anonymous

“ The duties ablest sea men do,
He did, and never yet had failed.
Bat wreck'd as he was homeward bound,
Within a league of England's coast,
Love sav'd him sure from being drown'd,
For all the crew but Tom were lost.
His strength restor'd, Tom hied with speed.
True to his love e'er was man. ”

“ But her by the is alighted:
And thou art all delighted.
O that's, &c.
If thou hast met this fair one,
When frae her thou hast parted
If every other fair one,
But her thou hast deserted,
And thou art broken-hearted. ”

“ Her brave hardy sons may submit to be in fetters
but cease and believe not such baseness in me.
The Lark may forget to rise in the morning,
the spring may forget to revive on the lee,
But never will I while my senses govern me,
forget to be kind to the lass o' Glenshee.
O let me alone for I'm sure I would blunder,
and set a' the gentry a laughing at me
They're book-taught in manner baith old and young o' them,
but we ken little of that in the hills o' Glenshee
They would say look ye at him wi' his Highland lady. ”