...dear May. THE BANKS a DOON. TUNE — ' THE CALEDONIAN HUNT'S DELIGHT.' YE banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair ! How can...flowering thorn : Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed — never to return. Thou'lt break my heart, thou bonie bird, That sings beside thy mate,...

...CALEDONIAN HUNT'S DELIGHT.' YE banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair I How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary...flowering thorn : Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed — never to return. Thou'lt break my heart, thou bonie bird, That sings beside thy mate,...

...ain dear May. THE BANKS 0' DOON.* TUlTE ' THE CALEDONIAN HUNT'S DELIGHT.' E banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair! How can...chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o' care ! • In January, 1787, Burns sent the following original version of this song to Mr. Ballantyne, ''...

...tone which he had assumed had precisely the opposite effect intended. " Yc banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair ? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' u' care ? '' it. By no means. The ideas rather trooped through in a pellmell sort of way ; but they...

...of its silver flood. Nature seems cruel then. Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Boon, How can ye bloom so fresh and fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o' care ! is a thought that stabbed many a breast, before Burns so touchingly expressed it. Ye'll break my...

...shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean. THE BANKS o' DOON. E banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair ? *\ How can ye chaunt, ye little birds, And I sae weary fou o' care ! Ye'll break my heart, ye little birds, That...

...the dear pleasures of the velvet plain, The painted tablets dealt and dealt again." H. w. No. 48. " How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair ? How can ye chant, ye little birds, Whilst I'm sae weary, fu' o' care ? " 1. A shell. 2. A serpent. 3. The Bay of Biscay. 4. A robe. 5....

...had precisely the opposite effect intended. " Ve banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sac fresh and fair ? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sac weary fa' o' care T " is the wail of stricken humanity everywhere. And Ivy thought of Mr. Clerron,...

...sympathies actively on the side of the interests, the joys or sorrows, of man. " Ye banks and braes of bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair ? How can ye sing, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' of care ?" With which appeal for sympathetic sorrow contrast...

...! How can ye chant, ye little birds, 'Aiul I sae weary fu' o' care ! Thou'lt break my heart, tliou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn : Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed — never to return. Thou'lt break my heart, thou bonie bird, That sings beside thy mate,...