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<DATE>2008-12-02</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081013.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Leader-haughs and Yarow.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To its own proper Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>WHen <HI>Phoebus</HI> bright the Azure Skies</L>
<L>with golden rayes enlightneth,</L>
<L>The&s;e things &s;ublunar he e&s;pics,</L>
<L>herbs, trees, and plants he quick'neth:</L>
<L>Among all tho&s;e he makes his choi&s;e,</L>
<L>and gladlie goes he thorow,</L>
<L>With radiant beams, and &s;ilver &s;treams,</L>
<L>through <HI>Leader-Haughs</HI> and <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Aries</HI> the day and night</L>
<L>in equal length divideth,</L>
<L>Old fro&s;ty <HI>Saturn</HI> takes the flight</L>
<L>no longer he abideth:</L>
<L>Then <HI>Flora</HI> Queen, with Mantle green,</L>
<L>ca&s;ts off her deadly &s;orrow,</L>
<L>And vows to dwell with <HI>Ceres</HI> &s;ell</L>
<L>in <HI>Leader-Haughs</HI> and <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Pan</HI> playing with his Oaten <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eed,</L>
<L>with &s;hepherds him attending,</L>
<L>Doth here re&s;ort their flocks to feed,</L>
<L>the hills and haughs commending;</L>
<L>With bottle, bag, and &s;taff with knag,</L>
<L>and all &s;inging good morrow;</L>
<L>They &s;wear no fields more plea&s;ure yields</L>
<L>than <HI>Leader-haughs</HI> and <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One hou&s;e there &s;tands on <HI>Leader</HI> &s;ide,</L>
<L>&s;urmounting my de&s;cryving,</L>
<L>With ea&s;e-rooms rare, and windows fair,</L>
<L>like <HI>Daedalus</HI> contriving:</L>
<L>Men pa&s;&s;ing by, do often &s;ay,</L>
<L>in &s;outh it hath no marrow;</L>
<L>It &s;tands as fair on <HI>Leader</HI> &s;ide,</L>
<L>as <HI>New-wark</HI> does on <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A mile below, who li&s;t to ride,</L>
<L>they'l hear the Mavis &s;inging;</L>
<L>Into <HI>St. Leonards</HI> Bank &s;he'l bide,</L>
<L>&s;weet Birks her head o're-hinging:</L>
<L>The Linewhite loud, and Progue proud,</L>
<L>with tender throats and narrow,</L>
<L>Into St. <HI>Leonards</HI> Banks do &s;ing</L>
<L>as &s;weet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e as in <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Lapwing</HI> lilteth o're the <HI>Lee,</HI></L>
<L>with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">imble wings &s;he &s;porteth;</L>
<L>But vows &s;he'l not come near the tree</L>
<L>where <HI>Philomel</HI> re&s;orteth:</L>
<L>By break of day the Lark can &s;ay,</L>
<L>&s;he bid you all good-morrow;</L>
<L>I'l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> you<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and yell for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> may dwell</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eader-haughs</HI> and <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Park Wanton-walls,</HI> and <HI>Wooden-Cleugh,</HI></L>
<L>the Ea&s;t and We&s;ter Main&s;es,</L>
<L>The Forre&s;t of <HI>Lawder's</HI> fair enough,</L>
<L>the Corns are good in <HI>Blain&s;lies;</HI></L>
<L>Where Oats are fine, and &s;old by kind,</L>
<L>that if we &s;earch all thorow</L>
<L><HI>Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Bnchan. Marr,</HI> none better are,</L>
<L>than <HI>Leader-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aughs</HI> and <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In <HI>Burn-Miln</HI> Boge, &amp; <HI>White-&s;lede</HI> &s;haws,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> fearful Hare &s;he haunteth;</L>
<L><HI>Bridge-haugh &amp; Broad-wood</HI> &s;heil &s;he knaws</L>
<L>to the <HI>Chapel-wood</HI> frequenteth:</L>
<L>Yet when &s;he irks, to <HI>Kaia&s;lie</HI> Birks</L>
<L>&s;he runs and &s;ighs for &s;orrow,</L>
<L>That &s;he &s;hould leave &s;weet <HI>Leader haughs</HI></L>
<L>and cannot win to <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What &s;weetet mu&s;ick would you hear,</L>
<L>than Hounds and Beigles crying?</L>
<L>The Hare waits not, but flees for fear,</L>
<L>their hard pur&s;uits defying.</L>
<L>But yet her &s;trength it fails at length,</L>
<L>no beilding can &s;he borrow</L>
<L>At <HI>Haggs, Cleckmae,</HI> nor <HI>Sorlesfield,</HI></L>
<L>but longs to be at <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Rock-wood, Rink-wood, Rival, Almer,</HI></L>
<L>&s;till thinking for to view her.</L>
<L>But O to fail her &s;trength begins,</L>
<L>no cunning can re&s;cue her:</L>
<L>O're dubb and dyke, o're &s;eugh and &s;yke,</L>
<L>&s;he I run the fields all thorow;</L>
<L>Yet ends her days in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eader-haughs,</HI></L>
<L>and bids farwell to <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou <HI>Er&s;lingtouu</HI> and <HI>Colding-knowes,</HI></L>
<L>where <HI>Humes</HI> had once commanding</L>
<L>And <HI>Dry Grange</HI> with thy milk white Ews</L>
<L>'twixt <HI>Tweed</HI> and <HI>Leader</HI> &s;tandings</L>
<L>The birds that flees through <HI>Red-path</HI> trees</L>
<L>and <HI>Gled&s;wood</HI> Banke all thorow,</L>
<L>May chant and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ng, &s;weet <HI>Leader-haughs,</HI></L>
<L>and the bonny Banks of <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Burn</HI> cannot his grief a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>while as his days endureth,</L>
<L>To &s;ee the changes of his age,</L>
<L>which day and time procureth.</L>
<L>For many a place &s;tands in hard ca&s;e,</L>
<L>where <HI>Burns</HI> was blyth beforrow,</L>
<L>With <HI>Humes</HI> that dwelt on <HI>Leader</HI> &s;ide,</L>
<L>and <HI>Scots</HI> that dwelt in <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The words of <HI>Burn</HI> the Violer.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHat? &s;hall my Viol &s;ilent be,</L>
<L>or leave her wonted &s;criding?</L>
<L>But choi&s;e &s;ome &s;adder Elegie,</L>
<L>no &s;ports and mirds deriding:</L>
<L>It mu&s;t be fain with lower &s;train,</L>
<L>than it was wont beforrow,</L>
<L>To &s;ound the prai&s;e of <HI>Leader-haughs,</HI></L>
<L>and the bonny Banks of <HI>Yarrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<L>But Floods have overflown the Banks,</L>
<L>the greeni&s;h Haughs di&s;gracing,</L>
<L>And Trees in Woods grows thin in ranks</L>
<L>about the fields defacing.</L>
<L>For Waters waxes, Woods doth waind,</L>
<L>more, if could for &s;orrow,</L>
<L>In rural Ver&s;e, I could rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>of <HI>Leader-haughs</HI> and <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<L>But &s;ighs and &s;obs o'r&s;ets my breath,</L>
<L>&s;ore &s;alti&s;h tears forth &s;ending.</L>
<L>All things Sublu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar here on earth</L>
<L>are &s;ubject to an ending;</L>
<L>So mu&s;t my Song, though &s;omewhat long,</L>
<L>yet late at even and morrow,</L>
<L>I'le &s;igh and &s;ing, &s;weet <HI>Leader-haughs,</HI></L>
<L>and the bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y Banks of <HI>Yarow.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>Hic terminus haeres.</TRAILER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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