The Mariner
Allan Cunningham
1784 to 1842
Ye winds, which sweep the grove's green tops,
And kiss the mountains hoar,
O softly stir the ocean-waves
Which sleep along the shore!
For my love sails the fairest ship
That wantons on the sea;
O bend his masts with pleasant gales,
And waft him hame to me.
O leave nae mair the bonnie glen,
Clear stream, and hawthorn grove.
Where first we walk'd in gloaming gray,
And sigh'd and look'd of love;
For faithless is the ocean wave,
And faithless is the wind:
Then leave nae mair my heart to break
'Mang Scotland's hills behind.
Allan Cunningham's The Mariner
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