Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-11-16

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i should embark Co the West Highland.
to arrange matters among her friends
for our projected change Of lile.' sThis
] adieu,' says Cromek, was performed
with all those ssmple and striking cere-
monials which rustic sentiment has de-
vised to Prolong tender emotions, and
impose awe. The lovers stood on
each side q small purling brook
they Iaved their hands in the stream,
and holding bible between them,
pronounced their vows to be faithful
10 each other This very Bible has
recently been discovered in the posses
sion Of Mary Campbelrs sister.-On
the boards Of the Old Testament is
inscribed, in Burns hand writing, And
ye shall not swear by my name falsely ;
I am the I.ord.'-Leoie. chap. x,x. v.
IL. On the boards Of the New Tcs-
tament, Thou shalt not iorswear ihy-
self but thou shalt perform unto the
Lord thine oaths.' Sc. Maffk. chap v.
". :33, and his own name in both. Soon
afterw ards, disasters came upon him,
and he thought OF going to try his for
tune in Jamaica. Then it was, that
be wrote the simple Wild, bat power
full lyric, ',NiIl yc g to the Indies, my
Nary
Will ye 60 to the 1ndses my, Mary,
And leave old Scotias shore!
Will ye 70 to the Indies my Mary
Across the Atlantic's roar!
o sweet grows the lime and the orange,
And the apple On the pine;
But all the charms Of the Indies
Can never equal thine.
4 haze sworn by the heavens to my Mary,
hae sworn by the heavens to be true, |
And say may the heavens forget me,
When ! forget ms vow:
D plight me your faith my Mary:
And plight me your lilly-white hand;
o plight me your faith, my Mary,
Before l leave Scotias strand.
We hae plighted our faith, my Mary,
In mutual affection to Join:
And curst Do the cause that shall part a.,
The hour, the moment oftime'
A few months after this day Of
parting love- on the banks Ayr, Mary
Campbell Sc: OF from lnverary to meet
her lover, as ] suppose to take leave Of
him; for itshould seem that no thoughts
IF a union could then be INDUCED. ,
Having reached Greenock, she was
,cized with . malignant fever, which
hurried her to the gsase in few days;
70 that tidings Of her death reached {
YER lover, before he could even hear (
II her illness. How deep and terri ,
DE was the shock to his strong and
,rdent miod,chow lasting the memory ,
Il this early love, il we'll known. !
Gears after her death, he wrote the ,
ong Of /" Highland Mary" Il
} pale, pale, now those rosy lips
Oft haze kiss'd - fosdly: IS
md closd for aye the sparkling glance {
That dwelt on me sac kindly. Ia
lsd mouldering now in silent dust,
The heart that loved ne dearly;
bat aye within my bosOm's core III
Shall live my Highland Mary. III
The elegy "Mary in Heaven, was c
vritten about 4 year after his mar
iage, on the anniversary Of the day on ,
vhich he heard Of the death Of Mary $
campbell. y
Mary Campbell was . poor peasant $
irl, whose life had been spent in ser 4
lie Offices, who could just spell a
esse in her Bible, and could notl
vrite at all,-who walked barefooted I
D that meeting on the banks Of the :
Ayr, which her lover has recorded.-Il
But Mary Campbell will live to memory !
1hile the masic and language Of her .
ountry endure. Helen Of Greece 1
I'll the Carthage Queen are not more .
ureIy immoTtalized than this plebeian 4
isl. The scope Of parting love, on 8
ne banks Of the Ayr, that spot where u
the golden hours, on angelwiogs," .
overed over Burns and his Mary, IL Z
lassic ground; Vaucluse and Pen -
hurst are not more lastingly consecra- :.
d; and like the copy Of Virgil in I
'hich Petrarch noted down the death =
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