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

RURAL LIBERTY.
Then, when partial fate has given
These, with health to taste the store.
Earth itself becomes a heaven,
And nought to wish for more.
The late Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, Bart., wrote this song.
We copy it, because it is not so well known as his more popular songs
—such as " Auld Gudeman ye're a Drucken Carle," " Jenny's Baw-
\
bee," &c. It is something in the strain of Pope's "Wish"—composed,
'i it is said, when he was fourteen years of age. Sir Alexander is well
5 known as the author of a number of poetical effusions of no ordinary
merit. He was born in 1775, and fell in a duel with James Stuart of
\ Dunearn
in 1822.
Air— Scotland Yet.
Let grandeur brag o' mansions line
O' couch and carpet rare,
O' bed o' down, and silks that shine,
Gie me the open air ;
The air, the open air, for me,
The air that's unconfined,
Whar mind and body baith are free-
As free's the rust'ling wind ;
I'll struggle wi' my latest breath
For air that's unconfin'd.
Wha can enjoy life's cheering sweets
Unless he strolls the fields,