. Wood's edition of the songs of Scotland : adapted to their appropriate melodies . who readily complied with the request by producing the very appropriatesong Queen Marys Farewell to Alloa, written expressly for this work. The particulars of Queen Marys visit toAlloa in July 1566, are given in The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, by George Chalmers, , 2d edition, vol. viii. p. 278. Mr. MLaren was, in his boyhood, familiar with the whole scenery of Alloa and the adjacent country;and he mentions that the stream alluded to in the first line [of his song] is the Devon—not Burnss Devo
. Wood's edition of the songs of Scotland : adapted to their appropriate melodies . who readily complied with the request by producing the very appropriatesong Queen Marys Farewell to Alloa, written expressly for this work. The particulars of Queen Marys visit toAlloa in July 1566, are given in The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, by George Chalmers, , 2d edition, vol. viii. p. 278. Mr. MLaren was, in his boyhood, familiar with the whole scenery of Alloa and the adjacent country;and he mentions that the stream alluded to in the first line [of his song] is the Devon—not Burnss Devon, whichruns along the foot of the Ochils and falls into the Forth at Cambus, but a smaller stream, which, in a many-windingcourse through luxuriant copsewood, skirts the Mar Park, and falls into the Forth below Clackmannan. 162 THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND. = 63 FAKEWELL, THOU STEEAM THAT WINDING FLOWS. ESfRKSSIVO. AIR, NANCYS 10 THE GREENWOOD QANE. m ^-q^l=^ s Fare - well, thou stream that wind - ing flow-3 round li - zas *=£ ^51^5 za T^r*^ spare the dwell Mem ry el throes With -. hope less chain, And yet guish; To ?zji -j—- # P-» -m-» P-< *£. =t£ feel fire in ev - ry vein, Nor dare dis - close my an - guish. Loves veriest wretch, unseen, unknown, I fain my griefs would cover:The bursting sigh, the unweeting groan, Betray the hapless know thou doomst me to despair, Nor wilt, nor canst relieve me;But, oh ! Eliza, hear one prayer— For pitys sake forgive me. The music of thy voice I heard, Nor wist while it enslaved me;I saw thine eyes, yet nothing feard, Till fears no more had saved unwary sailor thus aghast, The wheeling torrent viewing;Mid circling horrors sinks at last In overwhelming ruin. Farewell, thou stream that winding flows. The words were composed by Burns in November 1794, andsent to Mi*. George Thomson in a letter, in which the poet notices them thus :— Now for my English song to Nancysto the greenwood, &c. We think that Burnss words suit th
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