Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Annan Water | | Mary Halliday | | Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| | | BONNIE Mary Halliday, | |
| Turn again, I call you; | |
| If you leave your father’s ha’ | |
| Sorrow will befall you; | |
| The cushat, hark, a tale of woe | 5 |
| Is to its true love telling, | |
| And Annan stream in drowning wrath | |
| Is through the greenwood swelling. | |
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| Gentle Mary Halliday, | |
| Born to be a lady, | 10 |
| Upon the Annan’s woody side | |
| Thy saddled steed stands ready; | |
| For thy haughty kinsman’s threats | |
| Will thy true faith falter? | |
| The bridal banquet ’s ready made, | 15 |
| The priest stands by the altar. | |
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| Bonnie Mary Halliday, | |
| Turn again, I tell you; | |
| For wit and grace and loveliness, | |
| What maiden can excel you? | 20 |
| Though Annan has its beauteous dames, | |
| And Corrie mony a fair one, | |
| We canna spare thee frae our sight, | |
| Thou lovely and thou rare one. | |
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| Gentle Mary Halliday, | 25 |
| When the cittern ’s sounding | |
| We ’ll miss the music of thy foot | |
| Amang the blythe lads bounding,— | |
| The summer sun will freeze our blood, | |
| The winter moon will warm us, | 30 |
| Ere the like o’ thee will come again | |
| To cheer us and to charm us. | | | | |
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