. Wood's edition of the songs of Scotland : adapted to their appropriate melodies . The following is The Millers Wedding, a Strathspey, from Robert Bremners Collection of Scots Reels andCountry Dances. Its resemblance to some of the other airs above-mentioned will be at once perceived. It is heretransposed from D into G. fe a^!^llii^=llssg^ig. -t=3 THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND. 165 :120 f THE NIGHT IS DAEK, THE WAY IS LONG. AIR, ON A BANK OF FLOWERS. CON MOTO agitato, -(gi i ^=^= m e» © The night is dark, the way is Ions r¥=i1 Sfe^ Be - 3EE£ m St S£ ^ 1*1 t3 tween my love and me; I hear the rush of m
. Wood's edition of the songs of Scotland : adapted to their appropriate melodies . The following is The Millers Wedding, a Strathspey, from Robert Bremners Collection of Scots Reels andCountry Dances. Its resemblance to some of the other airs above-mentioned will be at once perceived. It is heretransposed from D into G. fe a^!^llii^=llssg^ig. -t=3 THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND. 165 :120 f THE NIGHT IS DAEK, THE WAY IS LONG. AIR, ON A BANK OF FLOWERS. CON MOTO agitato, -(gi i ^=^= m e» © The night is dark, the way is Ions r¥=i1 Sfe^ Be - 3EE£ m St S£ ^ 1*1 t3 tween my love and me; I hear the rush of moun - tain streams, The S SE h « roar - ing of the The wind blows T=^ Efc E=ffi fierce and chill, The blind - ing snow sweeps oer the waste ; No S no star, gives ta= light to guide My steps that feeb haste. My sinking heart foretells my fate—No morn shall dawn for me ! A deep snow-wreath must be my graveUpon this lonely lea! My Mary and rny little oneB No more around my neck shall foldTheir loving arms, until they rend My snowy death-shroud cold! On a Bank of Flowers. Such is the title given to an air that has repeatedly appeared in Scottish Collections,but was really composed by a German, John Ernest Gaillard. He was the son of a French perruque-maker, and wasborn at Zell, in Hanover, in 1687. He studied music under eminent ma
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