. The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson. feeling due: A confcious tranfport glads each fcene, Ungenerous youth. thy boaft how poor, Soft is the figh, and fweet the tear. To fteal a heart, and break it too! Even when by Deaths cold hand removd,In vain does memory renew, We mourn the tenant of the tomb; The hours once tingcl in tranfports dye To think that even in death he lovd,Can gild the horrors of the gloom. But bitter, bitter are the tears,Of her who flighted love bewails;No hope her dreary profpect chears,No pleafing me
. The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson. feeling due: A confcious tranfport glads each fcene, Ungenerous youth. thy boaft how poor, Soft is the figh, and fweet the tear. To fteal a heart, and break it too! Even when by Deaths cold hand removd,In vain does memory renew, We mourn the tenant of the tomb; The hours once tingcl in tranfports dye To think that even in death he lovd,Can gild the horrors of the gloom. But bitter, bitter are the tears,Of her who flighted love bewails;No hope her dreary profpect chears,No pleafing melancholy hails. The fad reverfe foon ftarts to view,And turns the thought to agony. No cold approach, no alter d mien,Juft what would make fufpicion ftart;No paufe the dire extremes between,He made me bleft _ and broke my heart! Hers are the pangs of wounded pride, From hope, the wretcheds anchor torn, Of blafted hopcy-of witherd joy: Neglected, and neglecting all, The prop (he leand on piercd her fide, Friendlefs, forfaken, and forlorn, The flame fhe fed, burns to deftroy. The tears I fhed muft ever The bonny wee thin^ ^•J f Itfg r+M m & ^^ 341 S * ^on - e wee thing> can - ,e wee ^ing Lovely wee thing ^^ Slowifh
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