SONG XXIII. STAY, MY CHARMER, &c. AIR.-AN GILLE DUBH CIRR DHUBH. I. STAY, my charmer, can you leave me? Cruel, cruel to deceive me! Well you know how much you grieve me ; Cruel charmer, can you go! Cruel charmer, can you go! II. By my love so ill requited; By the faith you fondly plighted; By the pangs of lovers slighted; Do not, do not leave me so ! Do not, do not leave me so! F 2 SONG XXIV. THICKEST NIGHT O'ERHANG, &c. AIR. STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT. I. THICKEST night o'erhang my dwelling: II. Chrystal streamlets gently flowing, III. In the cause of right engaged, But the heavens deny'd success. IV. Ruin's wheel has driven o'er us, But a world without a friend! * * Strathallan, it is presumed, was one of the followers of the young Chevalier, and is supposed to be lying concealed in some cave of the Highlands, after the battle of Culloden. SONG XXV. LOUD BLAW THE FROSTY BREEZES. AIR.-MORAG. I. LOUD blaw the frosty breezes, The snaws the mountains cover; Like winter on me seizes, Since my young highland rover Far wanders nations over. Where'er he go, where'er he stray, May heaven be his warden : Return him safe to fair Strathspey, And bonie Castle-Gordon ! II. The trees now naked groaning, Shall soon wi' leaves be hinging, The birdies dowie moaning, My youth's return'd to fair Strathspey, * The young highland rover, is supposed to be the young Chevalier, Prince Charles Edward. |