WI’ WAEFU’ HEART. Air--“ Sweet Annie frae
the sea beach came.” ___ WI’ waefu’ heart, an’
sorrowing e'e, I saw my Jamie sail awa',
O
’twas a fatal day to me, That day he past
the Berwick-law. How
joyless now seem’d all behind! I ling’ring stray’d alang the shore; Dark
boding fears hung on my mind That I might never
see him more. The
night came on wi’ heavy rain, Loud, fierce, and wild, the tempest
blew; In
mountain’s roll’d the awful main-- Ah, hapless maid! The
landsmen heard their drowning cries: The wreck was seen with dawning day; My
love was found, an’ now he lies Low in the isle of gloomy May. O
boatmen kindly waft me o'er! The cavern’d rock shall be my home; ’Twill
ease my burthen’d heart, to pour Its sorrows o'er his grassy tomb: With
sweetest flow’rs I’ll deck his grave, An’ tend them through the longsome
year: I’ll
water them, ilk morn an’ eve, With deepest
sorrow’s warmest tear. |