The bride was drest in claes fu' braw O the bonny, &c. In came her brither wi' a stend, Then cock'd his pistol to the bend, The fire, I wat, he mist not. O the bonny, &c. Out spake her mither when she saw O the bonny, &c. Her mither took her by the cluck, The bridal breakfast down was set, As soon as they did taste o't. O the bonny, &c. The bree was het, did scauld their mou', An' some into their cutties blew, While some frae them their speens they threw, But yet their will they miss'd not. O the bonny, &c. When ilka ane had claw'd their plate, The folks a' said that he should ate, But he had lost the best o't. O the bonny, &c. 2 Ower stools and dales the chiels did loup, O the bonny, &c. Out they gat then wi' a fling, Ilk lass into her lad did hing, Ilk o' them chose a different spring, Some sat on dales, an' some on planks, O the bonny, &c. MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. BURNS. Air-" Portmore." My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow; PORTMORE. Air-"Portmore." O DONALDIE, Donaldie, where hae ye been? Let's drink and gae hame, boys, let's drink and gae hame, We'll get a bad name and fill ourselves fou, And the lang woods o' Derry are ill to gae through. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; O bonny Portmore, ye shine where you charm, There are mony words, but few o' the best, "Donald Cameron," says Peter Buchan, in his "Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland," 1828, vol. ii., "was the author of this very beautiful and very old song. It is well known to most poetical readers with how little success Burns endeavoured to graft upon this stock a twig of his own rearing. Even Mr. Cunningham, in his 'Songs of Scotland,' admits the fact, and regrets that he could give no more than the first four lines of the original. The whole is now, for the first time, given complete from the recitation of a very old person." This song does not merit the praise Mr. Buchan gives it, and appears to be a heterogeneous jumble of lines from various songs and ballads previously current. Burns's song, though not one of his best, is certainly an emendation of Portmore," and is at all events consistent with itself. THE BONNIE HOUSE O' AIRLY. Air-"The house of Airly." Ir fell on a day, and a bonnie summer day, The Duke o' Montrose has written to Argyle An' lead in his men, by the back of Dunkeld, The lady look'd o'er her window sae hie, And there she espied the great Argyle Come to plunder the bonnie house o' Airly. "Come down, come down, Lady Margaret," he says, "Come down and kiss me fairly, Or before the morning clear daylight, I'll no leave a standing stane in Airly." “I wadna kiss thee, great Argyle, I wadna kiss thee fairly ; I wadna kiss thee, great Argyle, Gin you shouldna leave a standing stane in Airly." He has ta'en her by the middle sae sma', Says, "Lady, where is your drury?" "It's up and down the bonnie burn-side, Amang the planting of Airly." They sought it up, they sought it down, And found it in the bonnie balm-tree That shines on the bowling-green o' Airly. He has ta'en her by the left shoulder, And led her down to yon green bank Till he plunder'd the bonnie house o' Airly. "Oh, it's I hae seven braw sons,” she says, I wad gie them a' to Charlie. But gin my good lord had been at hame, There durst na a Campbell in a' the west Hae plunder'd the bonnie house o' Airly." This song was recovered from oral tradition, and first printed towards the close of the last century. It narrates an episode of the civil wars of the Covenant, and the destruction of the castle of Airly, in Forfarshire, the seat of the Ogilvies, Earls of Airly, by the Earl of Argyle. BANNOCKS O' BARLEY. From "Johnson's Musical Museum." BANNOCKS o' bear-meal, bannocks o' barley, Wha in his wae days were loyal to Charlie ? QUEEN MARY'S LAMENT. BURNS. Now Nature hangs her mantle green And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out ower the grassy lea. Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams, And glads the azure skies, But nocht can glad the weary wicht |