The Lily Land Of France.

"Adieu to France! Land of the Brave, farewell!     Sleep sweetly there, thy sons will watch by thee,     High as thy hills their burning blood wi"

"Bird of the summering North,     Whither away?     Fly you so gaily forth     Simply to stay     Nested in northern bowers     Till the late"

"JOCK.     O'er the deep wi' me, lassie,     Will you, will you?     Sail the sounding sea, lassie,     Will you, will you?     Where the Sac"

"Weep not for him who, in the battle dying,     Lives in the lays of those he sought to save;     Weep not for him who on the cold turf lying,"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"