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Article THE SAILOR'S SONG. ← Page 3 of 3
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The Sailor's Song.
And such friendship I found , as with holy delight , Favour promptly bestows all deserving above , — And again pleasure ' s beamings , pure , cheering , and bright , Light the home of my joys and the land of my love ! Oh ! there ' s ever a smile to succeed to a sigh , For pain yields her to pleasure as pleasure to pain ; And ' twere folly to mourn when the moment is nigh In which joys may surround us and bless us again !
SONG . INSCRIBED TO MISS AONES C . Air— " Adieu , a heartfelt long adieu . " Upo' thy banks , thou swellin' Tay , How busy scenes we see
mony , But far ayont , aboon them a ' , Is blythsome , bonnie , braw Dundee ! Wi' langsyne tow ' r , an' sin syne kirks , Wi' trade that spreads frae sea to sea . An' docks that ding a' Scotland round;—The warl ' s gem art thou Dundee !
Bnt ' tis na for her tow ' r or kirks , ( I wish yon kirks wad just agree , ) Nae for her trade an' galnfu' docks , That I ' m sae leal to braw Dundee ; It is because her merry thrang O' lasses bear awa' the gree ; An' mair , that ' mang them there is ane Unrivall ' d even in Dundee !
Oh ! pleasant he the path o' life , Fair maid , that ' s meted out to thee , If here about thy hame it wends , Or far aff wanders frae Dundee ! May a' that ' s good , an' kind , an' dear , Ay' waitin' on thy wj-ishes be ; May countless blessin ' s crown thy brow , Thou bonnie queen o' braw Dundee !
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Sailor's Song.
And such friendship I found , as with holy delight , Favour promptly bestows all deserving above , — And again pleasure ' s beamings , pure , cheering , and bright , Light the home of my joys and the land of my love ! Oh ! there ' s ever a smile to succeed to a sigh , For pain yields her to pleasure as pleasure to pain ; And ' twere folly to mourn when the moment is nigh In which joys may surround us and bless us again !
SONG . INSCRIBED TO MISS AONES C . Air— " Adieu , a heartfelt long adieu . " Upo' thy banks , thou swellin' Tay , How busy scenes we see
mony , But far ayont , aboon them a ' , Is blythsome , bonnie , braw Dundee ! Wi' langsyne tow ' r , an' sin syne kirks , Wi' trade that spreads frae sea to sea . An' docks that ding a' Scotland round;—The warl ' s gem art thou Dundee !
Bnt ' tis na for her tow ' r or kirks , ( I wish yon kirks wad just agree , ) Nae for her trade an' galnfu' docks , That I ' m sae leal to braw Dundee ; It is because her merry thrang O' lasses bear awa' the gree ; An' mair , that ' mang them there is ane Unrivall ' d even in Dundee !
Oh ! pleasant he the path o' life , Fair maid , that ' s meted out to thee , If here about thy hame it wends , Or far aff wanders frae Dundee ! May a' that ' s good , an' kind , an' dear , Ay' waitin' on thy wj-ishes be ; May countless blessin ' s crown thy brow , Thou bonnie queen o' braw Dundee !
VOL . v . K