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

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SIK ARTHUR AND LADY ANNE.
Janet Anderson, of Lightshaw, the name of a neighbouiing farm possessed
by her father.
Lapraik unfortunately became involved in the calamity occasioned
by the stoppage of the Douglas and Heron Bank, and was compelled
to part vs^ith his property. After experiencing considerable difficulty,
the poet, at an advanced period of life, became post-master in Muirkirk,
where he died, in the eightieth year of his age, on the 7th May
1807.
BY HUGH AINSLIE.
Sir Arthur's foot is on the sand.
His boat wears in the wind.
An' he's turn'd him to a fair foot-page
Was standing him behind.
" Gae hame, gae hame, my bonnie boy,
An' glad your mither's e 'e,
I ha'e left anew to weep an' rue,
Sae there's nane maun weep for thee.
" An' take this to my father's ha',
An' tell him I maun speed
There's fifty men in chase o' me.
An' a price upon my head.
" An' bear this to Dunellie's towers,
Whei'e my love Annie's gane.
It is a lock o' my brown hair.
Girt wi' the diamond stane."
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