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INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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PAGE

305

112

33

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white,
Now the hungry lion roars,

338

89

341

187

Oh, call my brother back to me,

Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home,

133

185

257

239

276

292

349

139

Oh! the days are gone when Beauty bright,

345

127

280

Oh where, and oh where, is your Highland laddie

gone,

197

Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered,

O whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad,.

183

10

O, Willie brew'd a peck o' maut,

O world! O life! O time!

out

186

284

Red rows the Nith 'tween bank and brae,
Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
Rose cheek'd Laura, come,

94

268

271

92

She is a winsome wee thing, .

187

She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, .

272

She stood breast high among the corn,

She walks in beauty like the night,

280

Some asked me where the rubies grew,.

111

Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules,

160

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king,
Still to be neat, still to be drest,

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,

Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town,

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

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The harp that once through Tara's halls,

271

The King sits in Dunfermline town,

21

The laird o' Cockpen, he's proud an' he's great,

198

There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin,
There come seven gypsies on a day,

254

51

There is a garden in her face,

91

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet,

272

There was a youth, a well beloved youth,

65

There was three kings into the East,

190

There were three ladies play'd at the ba',

52

There were three sailors of Bristol city,
The splendour falls on castle walls,
The stars are with the voyager,
The stately homes of England,

341

331

304

291

The time I've lost in wooing,

275

They grew in beauty side by side,

Three fishers went sailing out into the west,

Tiger, tiger, burning bright,

Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,
Wha 'll buy my caller herrin',
When all among the thundering drums,
When all is done and said,

When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
When cats run home, and light is come,
When daffodils begin to peer,

When daisies pied and violets blue,
When Hercules did use to spin,
When icicles hang by the wall,
When love with unconfined wings,
When o'er the hill the Eastern star,

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152

295

81

When the British warrior queen,

When the sheep are in the fauld, when the kye's come

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149

While larks with little wing,.

hame,

When this old cap was new,

When we two parted,

Where gang ye, thou silly auld carle,

Where the bee sucks, there lurk I,

Who is Sylvia? what is she,

Why does your brand so drop with blood,

157

100

278

265

86

180

81

225

Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears, .
Why so pale and wan, fond lover,

115

121

You are old, father William, the young man cried,

237

You spotted snakes with double tongue,

90