The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
He flew all around,
Till Colin he found,
Then perch’d on his hand with the prize;
“Whose heart, while he reads,
With tenderness bleeds
For the pigeon that flutters and dies.
THE SAILOR LAD’S RETURN.
AND is it thee! my Willy, lad,
And safe return’d-frae war;
Thour’t dearer to thy mithers heart,
Now thou has been sae far:
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But tell me a’ that’s happen’d thee,—
The night is wearing fast;
There’s nought I like sae weel to hear
As dangers that are past.
O mither! I’m e’en fain to see
Your guid-like face the same;
To mony a place ye followed me,
When I was far frae haine:
And as I walk’d the deck at night,
And watch’d the rippling tide,
My thoughts ay flew to this lov’d spot,
And set me by your side.
O Willy! mony a sleepless night
I pass’d, an’ a’ for thee;
I pin’d, and turn’d just skin and bane,
Folk thought ‘twas o’er wi’ me.
Then when the wicked wars broke out,
The news I durst not read,