[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

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'Tis a chamber for the bride
Oft, the aiild kii-k-yard
A shroud for beauty's pride,
The auld kirk-yard.
On the haughty lip of rose
The greedy worms repose,
Where the lowly gowan blows
In the auld kirk-yard.
Life's greenest leaf lies low
In the aiild kirk-yard ;
Swept from the giant bow,
To the auld kirk-yard ;
And the sere leaf 'neath our tread
Whispers, o'er the dreamless dead,
As a leaf we aU do fade
To the auld kirk-yard.
The gorgeous starlight gleams
On the auld kirk-yard ;
And spring-time's fostering beams
Gild the auld kirk-yard
But the lang, lang, winter snows
A wreathy mantle throws
O'er the sere and blighted rose
In the auld kirk-yard.
But the heart's sad beatings cease
In the auld kirk-yard ;
And aliens rest in peace
In the auld kirk-yard.
Where ebbed dark floods of strife
Dove-like hope, wi' promise rife,
Plants the broken branch o' life
In the auld kirk-yard.
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Ilk lassie has a laddie she lo'es aboon the rest.
Ilk lassie has a laddie, if she like to confess't,
That is deal" unto her bosom whatever be his trade
But my lover's aye the laddie that wears the crook and plaid.
Ilk morn he climbs the mountains, his fleecy flocks to view,
And hear's the lav'rocks chanting, new sprung frae 'mang the dew
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