The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . «-r-J- ±=X W??-r-cz^B as tS s J: ^ 5 t r^r f=f t=s ^^^^^^^^m -«—p- ~v—v- Thou gran king of ter - rors, thou lifes gloomy foe, Go fright - en the coward and 1=1 S^ »---%- T=t SiiS t7 L Si ££ * Wherever this passage occurs, the high notes may be sang if rue voice winnor reach the tower notes of the melodv OKAN AN AOIG: OK. THE SONG OF DEATH. 57 *tf d^m—»- S=E V— J=£ S **=Z P^ ty - rant! but know No terrors hast thou for the slave ! Go teach them to tremble, fell -~1 :F=F Jt. f™=g I ^m £ —m 1—. ^±ks£rT~i^ i Thou strikst the dull peas
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . «-r-J- ±=X W??-r-cz^B as tS s J: ^ 5 t r^r f=f t=s ^^^^^^^^m -«—p- ~v—v- Thou gran king of ter - rors, thou lifes gloomy foe, Go fright - en the coward and 1=1 S^ »---%- T=t SiiS t7 L Si ££ * Wherever this passage occurs, the high notes may be sang if rue voice winnor reach the tower notes of the melodv OKAN AN AOIG: OK. THE SONG OF DEATH. 57 *tf d^m—»- S=E V— J=£ S **=Z P^ ty - rant! but know No terrors hast thou for the slave ! Go teach them to tremble, fell -~1 :F=F Jt. f™=g I ^m £ —m 1—. ^±ks£rT~i^ i Thou strikst the dull peasant, he sinks in theNor saves een the wreck of a name: TIiou strikst the young hero, a glorious markHe falls in the blaze of his fame. dark, In the field of proud honour, our swords in our hands, Our king and our country to save;! While victory shines on lifes last ebbing sands, Oh, who would not die with the brave ! Oeak an Aoig; or, The Sonq of Death. In a letter addressed to Mrs. Dunlop, dated Ellisland, 17thDecember 1791, Burns says, I have just finished the following song, which, to a lady, the descendant of manyheroes of his truly illustrious line, and herself the mother of several soldiers, needs neither preface nor —a field of battle. Time of the day—evening. The wounded and the dying of the victorious army aresupposed to join in the following Song of Death— Farewell, thou fair day, &c. The circumstance that gave riseto the foregoing verses, was looking over, with a musical friend, Macdonalds Collection of Highlan
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