MUSICAL MISCELLANY: 37° “On a foreign fhore the fweet youth lay dying, In a foreign grave his body’s now lying ; ‘Whilefriends and acquaintance in Scotland are crying : : : For Jamie the glory’and pride of the Dee. Mis-hap on the hand by whom he was wounded ; Mis-hap on’the wars that call’d him away (ed, ‘From a circle of friends by which he was furround- Who mourn for dear Jamie the tedious day. ‘Oh! poor haplefs maid, who mourns difcontented, The lofs of a lover fo juftly lamented ; By time, only time, can her grief be contented, ‘And all her dull hours become cheerful and gay. *Twas honour ‘and brav’*ry made him leave her mourning, From unjuft rebellion his ‘country to free ; He left her in hopes of a {peedy returning, To wander again on the Banks of the Dee. For this he defpifed all dangers and perils ; ’Twas thus he efpoufed Britannia’s quarrels, That when he came home he might crown her with laurels, The happieft maid on the Banks of the Dee. But fate had determin’d his fall to be glorious, Tho’ dreadful the thought muft be unto me 3 D