Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DONALD’S REPLY. My Mary dear, my anely luve, Think ye my heart is made o’ stane, That I should tak’ ye far awa’ And leave your father here, his lane ? Think ye that I could ever bear To see ye turn your heart frae me, That I might never hear ye sigh, Or mark the tear-drap in your ee ? Ye wrang, ye sairly wrang the heart That’s lo'ed ye frae your earliest year, That’s watched ye, Mary, aften when Ye thought that nane but God was near. DONALn’S REPLY. 19 Nae, Mary, nae?ane heart an’ hamc Will hauld the bairn an’ father too, Believe me could ye leave him here I should na luve ye as I do. He aye shall have the warmest seat, We’ll tak him his auld elbow chair,? An’ you an’ I thegither, luve, Will never let him sorrow mair. Then gin ye dinna wear a crown,? Or walk in flauntin’ robes o’ pride,? Ye shall be happy as a queen,? Though ye be anely Donald’s bride! A DAY IN A VILLAGE CHUECHYABD. The morning sun was warm and bright As summer sun can be, And birds, made happy by its light, Breathed their wild minstrelsy. The dew'drops lingered on the flowers, - As if the gems would say Why should not we, as Nature’s own, Enjoy the holiday? A matron with an infant boy, The youthful mother too, And sponsors, on the churchyard path Their softening shadows threw. A DAY IN A VILLAGE CHURCHYARD. 21 Then, sprinkled at the holy font? The benediction giv'n? The unconscious babe received a name, And heritage in heav'n. Who can describe the hopes and fears Of that fond anxious one, Or analyze the tear that fell Upon her first-born son! The mystery of maternal love’s Unfathomable spell, Which binds the mother to her child, No mortal tongue can tell. The sun shone on another gro…
