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# The Book of Scottish Song/My sheep I neglected

My sheep I neglected.
[This song was very popular in Scotland among the upper classes about the middle of the last century, and there are still old people to be found who refer to it. It was written by Sir Gilbert Elliot, third baronet of Minto, who was born in 1722, educated for the Scottish bar, and during his life held several official appointments under government. He died at Marseilles in 1777. His son, for some time governor-general of India, was raised to the peerage by the title of Earl of Minto. Sir Gilbert was brother to Miss Jane Elliot, authoress of the old set of the "Flowers of the Forest." The words "My sheep I neglected" are printed in the first volume of Yair's "Charmer," Edinburgh, 1749, in Herd's Collection, and elsewhere. They are to the tune of an old air, called My Apron, dearie, which, with old words, may be found in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1725, and, with the present words, in Johnson's Museum, and Thomson's Select Melodies.]
My sheep I neglected—I lost my sheep-hook, And all the gay haunts of my youth I forsook; No more for Amynta fresh garlands I wove; For ambition, I said, would soon cure me of love. Oh, what had my youth with ambition to do? Why left I Amynta? Why broke I my vow? Oh, give me my sheep, and my sheep-hook restore, And I'll wander from love and Amynta no more. ​Through regions remote in vain do I rove, And bid the wide ocean secure me from love! Oh, fool! to imagine that aught could subdue A love so well-founded, a passion so true! Oh, what, &c.
Alas! tis too late at thy fate to repine; Poor shepherd, Amynta can never be thine: Thr tears are all fruitless, thy wishes are vain. The moments neglected return not again. Oh, what, &c.
# The Book of Scottish Song/Nae mair we'll meet

Nae mair we'll meet.
[John Sim.—Air, "We'll meet beside the dusky glen."]
Nae mair we'll meet again, my love, by yon burn side, Nae mair we'll wander through the grove, by yon burn side, Ne'er again the mavis' lay will we hail at close o' day, For we ne'er again will stray down by yon burn side.
Yet mem'ry oft will fondly brood, on yon burn side, O'er haunts which we sae aft ha'e trod, by yon burn side, Still the walk wi' me thou'lt share, though thy foot can never mair
Bend to earth the gowan fair, down by yon burn side.
Now far remov'd from every care, 'boon yon burn side, Thou bloom'st, my love, an angel fair, 'boon yon burn side; And if angels pity know, sure the tear for me will flow, Who must linger here below, down by yon burn side.
# The Book of Scottish Song/My spouse, Nancy

My spouse, Nancy.
[Written by Burns for Thomson's collection, to the tune of "My jo Janet."]
Husband, husband, cease your strife, Nor longer idly rave, sir; Though I am your wedded wife, Yet I'm not your slave, sir. One of two must still obey, Nancie, Nancie; Is it man or woman, say, My spouse Nancie?
If 'tis still the lordly word, Service and obedience; I'll desert my sovereign lord, And so good-bye allegiance!
Sad will I be so bereft, Nancie, Nancie; Yet I'll try to make a shift, My spouse Nancie.
My poor heart then break it must, My last hour I'm near it; When you lay me in the dust, Think — think how you will bear it. I will hope and trust in Heaven, Nancie, Nancie, Strength to bear it will be given, My spouse Nancie.
Well, sir, from the silent dead, Still I'll try to daunt you, Ever round your midnight bed Horrid spirites shall haunt you. I'll wed another like my dear Nancie, Nancie; Then all hell will fly for fear, My spouse Nancie!
# The Book of Scottish Song/My sweet wee laddie

My sweet wee laddie.
[Robert Jamieson.]
O blessings attend my sweet wee laddie, That blinks sae bonnily now on my knee; And thousands o' blessings attend on his daddie, Tho' far awa' now frae his babie and me.
It's aft ha'e I sitten, and sair ha'e I grutten, Till blear'd and blinded wi' tears was my e'e; And aft I bethought me, how dearly I've bought thee; For dear hast thou been, and dear art thou to me. Yet blessings attend, &c.
O lanely and weary, cauld, friendless, and dreary, To me the wide warld's a wilderness a'; Yet still ae dear blossom I clasp to my bosom, And oh! 'tis sae sweet—like the joy that's awa'! And blessings attend, &c.
When thou lyest sleeping I hang o'er thee weeping, And bitter the tears that thy slumbers bedew; Yet thy innocence smiling, sae sweetly beguiling, Half mak's me forget that I sorrow e'er knew. And blessings attend, &c.
Then smile, my sweet laddie—O smile like thy daddie; My heart will be light tho' the tear's in my e'e; I canna believe he will ever deceive me, Sae leal and sae kind as he kythed aye to be. And blessings attend, &c.
And O, 'mid my mourning to see him returning!— Wi' thee to his arms, when with rapture I fly— Come weal or come wae then, nae fear I can ha'e then, And wha'll be sae blest as my babie and I! Then blessings attend, &c.
# The Book of Scottish Song/Nan of Logie Green

Nan of Logie Green.
[Picken.]
By pleasure long infected, Kind Heav'en, when least expected, My devious path directed To Nan of Logie Green; Where thousand sweets repose 'em In quiet's unruffled bosom, I found my peerless blossom Adorning Logie Green.
The city belle declaiming, My fancy may be blaming, But still I'll pride in naming Sweet Nan of Logie Green. Her cheek the vermeil rose is, Her smile a heav'n discloses, No lily leaf that blows is So fair on Logie Green.
Ye town-bred dames, forgive me, Your arms must ne'er receive me; Your charms are all, believe me, Eclips'd on Logie Green. Forgive my passion tender— Heav'n so much grace did lend her As made my heart surrender To Nan of Logie Green.
No more the town delights me, For love's sweet ardour smites me, I'll go where he invites me— To Nan of Logie Green: My heart shall ne'er deceive her, I ne'er in life shall leave her; In love and peace for ever We'll live at Logie Green.
# The Book of Scottish Song/Nancy

Nancy.
[Written by Burns for Thomson's collection, to the tune of "The Quaker's Wife." Clarinda (Agnes M'Lehose) is the subject of the song.]
Thine am I, my faithful fair, Thine, my lovely Nancy; Ev'ry pulse along my veins, Every roving fancy.
To thy bosom lay my heart, There to throb and languish: Though despair had wrung his core, That would heal its anguish.
Take away these rosy lips, Rich with balmy treasure; Turn away thine eyes of love, Lest I die with pleasure.
What is life when wanting love? Night without a morning: Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
# The Book of Scottish Song/My wife's

My wife's.
[The tune of "My wife's a wanton wee thing" is old, and is sometimes used as a reel tune. Part of the following song appears in Herd's collection, 1776, and part in Johnson's Museum.]
My wife's a wanton wee thing, My wife's a wanton wee thing, My wife's a wanton wee thing, She winna be guided by me.
She play'd the loon ere she was married, She play'd the loon ere she was married, She play'd the loon ere she was married, She'll do't again ere she die!
She sell'd her coat, and she drank it, She sell'd her coat, and she drank it, She row'd hersel' in a blanket; She winna be guided by me.
She mind't na when I forbade her,
She mind't na when I forbade her, I took a rung and I claw'd her, And a braw gude bairn was she.
# The Book of Scottish Song/My wife has ta'en the gee

My wife has ta'en the gee.
[First printed in Herd's Collection, 1769. The words have been set to different airs, but the original is to be found in Gow's fifth collection of Reels.]
A friend of mine came here yestreen, And he would ha'e me down To drink a bottle of ale wi' him In the neist burrows town. But, O! indeed it was. Sir, Sae far the waur for me; For lang or e'er that I came hame My wife had ta'en the gee.
We sat sae late, and drank sae stout, The truth I'll tell to you, That ere the middle o' the night, We were a' roaring fou. My wife sits at the fire-side, And the tear blinds aye her e'e, The ne'er a bed will she gae to, But sit and tak' the gee. ​In the morning soon, when I came down, The ne'er a word she spake, But monie a sad and sour look, And aye her head she'd shake. My dear, quoth I, what aileth thee, To look sae sour on me? I'll never do the like again, If ye'll ne'er tak' the gee.
When that she heard, she ran, shy flang Her arms about my neck; And twenty kisses in a crack, And, poor wee thing, she grat. If ye'll ne'er do the like again, But bide at hame wi' me, I'll lay my life I'se be the wife That's never tak' the gee.
# The Book of Scottish Song/Myot's lofty brow

Myot’s lofty brow.
[Thomas Smail.—Here first printed. Myot hill, situated about two miles west of Denny, in Stirlingshire, affords a varied and beautiful prospect of the banks of "the dark-winding Carron, still pleasing to see," the Ochill hills, Firth of Forth, Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Canal, &c.; and is much resorted to by pedestrians.]
Again on Myot's lofty brow, With bounding heart I stand, Commanding many a lovely view Of hill, and dale, and strand.
Here often in my youthful days I ran with joyous glee; But far I've wander'd since through life, On land, on lake, on sea.
My early friends who shar'd my joy, Whose mirth resounded high, Where now are they? In death's embrace, Within the grave, they lie.
Our youthful days! when hopes were bright, And all appear'd serene, How ill-exchang'd for other times Of life's rough chequer'd scene.
'Tis here, when all is past and gone, I'd like my grave to be; But mark'd by no sepulchral stone, Or weeping willow-tree.
For here in life my breast full gush'd With joyous tides of glee; And here in death, when all is hush'd, My heart may throb to be.
# The Affectionate Shepheard

Collection of pastoral poems, based on the second of Virgil's Eclogues, first published 1594.
* The Affectionate Shepheard, in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, (ed.) by Alexander B. Grosart (1876).
* The Affectionate Shepheard, in Barnfield's Poems, (ed.) by Edward Arber (1878).
# The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ/Chapter 77

Jesus in Hebron. Goes to Bethany. Advises Ruth regarding certain family troubles.
1. With three disciples Jesus went to Hebron where he tarried seven days and taught.
2. And then he went to Bethany and in the home of Lazarus he taught.
3. The evening came; the multitudes were gone, and Jesus, Lazarus, and his sisters, Martha, Ruth and Mary, were alone.
4. And Ruth was sore distressed. Her home was down in Jericho; her husband was the keeper of an inn; his name was Asher-ben.
5. Now, Asher was a Pharisee of strictest mien and thought, and he regarded Jesus with disdain.
6. And when his wife confessed her faith in Christ, he drove her from his home.
7. But Ruth resisted not; she said, If Jesus is the Christ he knows the way, and I am sure He is the Christ.
8. My husband may become enraged and slay my human form; he cannot kill the soul, and in the many mansions of my Fatherland I have a dwelling-place.
9. And Ruth told Jesus all; and then she said, What shall I do?
10. And Jesus said, Your husband is not willingly at fault; he is devout; he prays to God, our Father-God.
11. His zeal for his religion is intense; in this he is sincere; but it has driven him insane, and he believes it right to keep his home unsullied by the heresy of Christ.
12. He feels assured that he has done the will of God in driving you away.
13. Intolerance is ignorance matured.
14. The light will come to him some day, and then he will repay for all your heartaches, griefs and tears.
15. And Ruth, you must not think that you are free from blame.
16. If you had walked in wisdom's ways, and been content to hold your peace, this grief would not have come to you.
17. It takes a long, long time for light to break into the shell of prejudice, and patience is the lesson you have need to learn.
18. The constant dropping of the water wears away the hardest stone.
19. The sweet and holy incense of a godly life will melt intolerance much quicker than the hottest flame, or hardest blow.
20. Just wait a little time, and then go home with sympathy and love. Talk not of Christ, nor of the kingdom of the Holy One.
21. Just life a godly life; refrain from harshness in your speech, and you will lead your husband to the light.
22. And it was so.
# The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ/Chapter 8

Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The devil. Love the saviour of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the dark.
1. Again Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said,
2. No man lives unto himself; for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing.
3. Blest are the pure in heart; for they will love and not demand love in return.
4. They will not do to other men what they would not have other men do unto them.
5. There are two selfs; the higher and the lower self.
6. The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God.
7. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.
8. The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away; the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
9. The higher self is the embodiment of truth; the lower self is truth reversed, and so is falsehood manifest.
10. The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not.
11. The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms; the higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life.
12. The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and death.
13. It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall.
14. If you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you will have studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.
15. He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who knows his higher self, know God; knows well the things that cannot pass away.
16. Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self.
17. Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust;
18. Whose favours must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind.
19. And yet these gods possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathise, no power to save.
20. This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed with shadows of a thought.
21. The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self.
22. If man would find his saviour he must look within; and when the demon self has been dethroned the saviour, Love, will be exulted to the throne of power.
23. The David of the light is Purity, who slays the strong Goliath of the dark, and seats the saviour, Love, upon the throne.
# The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ/Chapter 74

Jesus heals on the Sabbath, and is censured by the Pharisees. Restores a drowned child. Rescued a wounded dog. Cares for a homeless child. Speaks on the law of kindness.
1. It was the Sabbath day, and Jesus stood among the surging masses of the people in the temple courts and sacred halls.
2. The blind, the deaf, the dumb, and those obsessed were there, and Jesus spoke the Word, and they were healed.
3. On some he laid his hands, and they were healed; to others he just spoke the Word, and they were full restored to health; but others had to go and wash in certain pools; and others he anointed with a holy oil.
4. A doctor asked him why he healed in divers ways, and he replied,
5. Disease is discord in the human form, and discords are produced in many ways.
6. The body is a harpsichord; sometimes the strings are too relaxed, and then inharmony results.
7. Sometimes we find the strings too tense, and then another form of discord is induced.
8. Disease is many-formed, and these are many ways to cure, to tune anew the mystic harpsichord.
9. Now when the Pharisees were told that Jesus healed the people on the Sabbath day they were enraged, and they commanded him to quit the place.
10. But Jesus said, Was man designed to fit the Sabbath, or was the Sabbath day designed to fit the man?
11. If you had fallen in a pit and, lo, the Sabbath day had come, and I should pass your way, would you cry out.
12. Let me alone; it is a sin to help me on the Sabbath day; I'll swelter in this filth until another day?
13. You Pharisees, you hypocrites! you know you would be glad to have my help upon the Sabbath day, or any other day.
14. These people all have fallen into pits, and they are calling loud for me to help them out, and man and God would curse me should I pass along and heed them not.
15. And then the Pharisees returned to say their prayers, and curse the man of God because he heeded not their words.
16. Now, in the evening Jesus stood beside a pool; a playful child had fallen in, and it was drowned, and friends were bearing it away.
17. But Jesus called the carriers to stop; and then he stretched himself upon the lifeless form, and breathed into its mouth the breath of life.
18. And then he called aloud unto the soul that had gone out, and it returned; the child revived and lived.
19. And Jesus saw a wounded dog; it could not move; it lay beside the way and groaned with pain. He took it in his arms and bore it to the home where he abode.
20. He poured the healing oil into the wounds; he cared for it as though it were a child till it was strong and well.
21. And Jesus saw a little boy who had no home, and he was hungry; when he called for bread the people turned away.
22. And Jesus took the child and gave him bread; he wrapped him in his own warm coat, and found for him a home.
23. To those who followed him the master said, If man would gain again his lost estate he must respect the brotherhood of life.
24. Whoever is not kind to every form of life—to man, to beast, to bird, and creeping thing—cannot expect the blessings of the Holy One; for as we give, so God will give to us.
# The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ/Chapter 80

Lamaas come from India to see Jesus. He listens to the teachings of John at Salim. John tells him of the divine mission of Jesus. Lamaas finds Jesus at the Jordan. The masters recognise each other.
1. Lamaas, priest of Brahm, who was a friend of Jesus when he was in the temple of Jagannath, had heard of Jesus and his mighty works in many lands; and he had left his home and come to Palestine in search of him.
2. And as he journeyed towards Jerusalem he heard of John, the harbinger, who was esteemed a prophet of the living God.
3. Lamaas found the harbinger at Salim Springs; for many days he was a silent listener to the pungent truths he taught.
4. And he was present when the Pharisee told John of Jesus and his mighty works
5. He heard the answer of the harbinger; heard him bless the name of Jesus; whom he called the Christ.
6. And then he spoke to John; he said, Pray tell me more about this Jesus whom you call the Christ.
7. And John replied, this Jesus is the love of God made manifest.
8. Lo, men are living on the lower planes—the planes of greed and selfishness; for self they fight; they conquer with the sword.
9. In every land the strong enslave and kill the weak. All kingdoms rise by force of arms; for force is king.
10. This Jesus comes to overthrow this iron rule of force, and seat Love on the throne of power.
11. And Jesus fears no man. He preaches boldly in the courts of kings, and everywhere, that victories won by force of arms are crimes;
12. That every worthy end may be attained by gentleness and love just as the Prince of Peace, Melchisedec, the priest of God, won gallant victories in war without the shedding of a drop of blood.
13. You ask where are the temples of the Christ? He ministers at shrines not made with hands; his temples are the hearts of holy men who are prepared to see the king.
14. The groves of nature are his synagogues; his forum is the world.
15. He has no priests dressed up in puppet style to be admired by men; for every son of man is priest of Love.
16. When man has purified his heart by faith, he needs no middle man to intercede.
17. He is on friendly terms with God; is not afraid of him, and he is able, and is bold enough, to lay his body on the altar of the Lord.
18. Thus every man is priest, and is himself a living sacrifice.
19. You need not seek the Christ, for when your heart is purified the Christ will come, and will abide with you for evermore.
20. And then Lamaas journeyed on; he came to Jesus as he taught beside the ford.
21. And Jesus said, Behold the Star of India!
22. Lamaas said, Behold the Sun of Righteousness! And he confessed his faith in Christ, and followed him.
# The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ/Chapter 76

Jesus in Bethlehem. Explains the Empire of Peace to the shepherds. An unusual light appears. The shepherds recognise Jesus as the Christ.
1. The Logos went to Bethlehem, and many people followed him.
2. He found the shepherd's home where he was cradled when a babe; here he abode.
3. He went up to the hills where more than thirty years before the shepherds watched their flocks and heard the messenger of peace exclaim:
4. At midnight in a cave in Bethlehem the Prince of Peace is born.
5. And shepherds still were there, and sheep still fed upon the hills.
6. And in the valley near great flocks of snow-white doves were flying to and fro.
7. And when the shepherds knew that Jesus, whom the people called the king, had come, they came from near and far to speak to him.
8. And Jesus said to them, Behold the life of innocence and peace!
9. White is the symbol of the virtuous and pure! the lamb of innocence; the dove of peace;
10. And it was meet that love should come in human form amid such scenes as these.
11. Our father Abraham walked through these vales, and on these very hills he watched his flocks and herds.
12. And here it was that one, the Prince of Peace, the king of Salim, came; the Christ in human form; a greater far than Abraham was he.
13. And here it was that Abraham gave to this king of Salim, tithes of all he had.
14. This Prince of Peace went forth in battle everywhere. He had no sword; no armour of defence; no weapons of offence;
15. And yet he conquered men, and nations trembled at his feet.
16. The hosts of Egypt quailed before this sturdy king of right; the kings of Egypt placed their crowns upon his head,
17. And gave into his hands the sceptre of all Egypt land, and not a drop of blood was shed, and not a captive placed in chains;
18. But everywhere the conqueror threw wide the prison doors and set the captives free.
19. And, once again, the Prince of Peace has come, and from these blessed hills he goes again to fight.
20. And he is clothed in white; his sword is truth, his shield is faith; his helmet is innocence; his breath is love; his watchword peace.
21. But this is not a carnal war; it is not man at war with man; but it is right against the wrong.
22. And love is captain, love is warrior, love is armour, love is all, and love shall win.
23. And then again the hills of Bethlehem were clothed with light, again the messenger exclaimed,
24. Peace, peace on earth, good will to men.
25. And Jesus taught the people; healed the sick; revealed the mysteries of the kingdom of the Holy One.
26. And many said, He is the Christ; the king who was to come has come; Praise God.