. British musical miscellany : being a collection of Scotch, English, & Irish songs set to music. d The castle of Montgomery,Green be your woods, and fair your flowrs^ Your waters never simmer first unfaulds her robes, And there does langest tarry ;Twas there I took the last fareweel, Of my dear Highland Mary. How sweetly bloomd the gay green birk* How rich the hawthorns blossom :As underneath their fragrant shade; I claspd her to my bosom !The golden hours, on angel wings* Flew oer me and my dearie ;For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi monv a vow, and
. British musical miscellany : being a collection of Scotch, English, & Irish songs set to music. d The castle of Montgomery,Green be your woods, and fair your flowrs^ Your waters never simmer first unfaulds her robes, And there does langest tarry ;Twas there I took the last fareweel, Of my dear Highland Mary. How sweetly bloomd the gay green birk* How rich the hawthorns blossom :As underneath their fragrant shade; I claspd her to my bosom !The golden hours, on angel wings* Flew oer me and my dearie ;For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi monv a vow, and lockd embrace, Our parting was fu tender ;And pledging aft to meet again, We tore Ourselves oh ! fell deaths untimely frost, Has nipt my flowr so early ;Now greens the sod, and caulds the clay That wraps my Highland Mary ! 105 O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kissd sae fondly !And closM for ay, the sparkling glance That dwalt on me sae kindly !And mouldring now in silent dust, That heart that loed me dearly !But still within my bosoms core, Shall live my Highland Mary*. O 106 SONG L. T/ie Sea Storm; &£ *: ^m p Cease rude Bo-reas, blustring rail - er, List i i E . » f -0 M^ZI ye landsmen all to me,Messmates, hear a ;-q-3£—fr g ? i—\ -j— -—? -k f itzx iCZtZ bro-ther sai-lor Sing the dan-gers of the
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