“Far ’s the gate ye hae to gang; dark ’s the night, and eerie;
    Far ’s the gate ye hae to gang; dark ’s the night, and eerie;
    Far ’s the gate ye hae to gang; dark ’s the night, and eerie;
    Oh, stay this night wi’ your love, and dinna gang and leave me.”

    “It ’s but a night and hauf a day that I ’ll leave my dearie;
    But a night and hauf a day that I ’ll leave my dearie;
    But a night and hauf a day that I ’ll leave my dearie;
    Whene’er the sun gaes west the loch, I ’ll come again and see thee.”

    “Dinna gang, my bonnie lad, dinna gang and leave me;
    Dinna gang, my bonnie lad, dinna gang and leave me;
    When a’ the lave are sound asleep, I ’m dull and eerie;
    And a’ the lee-lang night I ‘m sad, wi’ thinking on my dearie.”

    “Oh, dinna think, bonnie lassie, I ’m gaun to leave thee! 
    Dinna think, bonnie lassie, I ’m gaun to leave thee;
    Dinna think, bonnie lassie, I ’m gaun to leave thee;
    Whene’er the sun gaes out o’ sight, I ’ll come again and see thee.”

    “Waves are rising o’er the sea; winds blaw loud and fear me;
    Waves are rising o’er the sea; winds blaw loud and fear me;
    While the winds and waves do roar, I am wae and drearie;
    And gin ye lo’e me as ye say, ye winna gang and leave me.”

    “Oh, never mair, bonnie lassie, will I gang and leave thee! 
    Never mair, bonnie lassie, will I gang and leave thee;
    Never mair, bonnie lassie, will I gang and leave thee;
    E’en let the world gang as it will, I ’ll stay at hame and cheer ye.”

    Frae his hand he coost his stick; “I winna gang and leave thee;”
    Threw his plaid into the neuk; “Never can I grieve thee;”
    Drew his boots, and flang them by; cried, “My lass, be cheerie;
    I ’ll kiss the tear frae aff thy cheek, and never leave my dearie.”

[19] The last verse of this song was added by John Hamilton.  The song, on account of this addition, was not included by Macneill in the collected edition of his “Poetical Works.”  One of Miss Blamire’s songs has the same opening line; and it has been conjectured by Mr Maxwell, the editor of her poems, that Macneill had been indebted to her song for suggesting his verses.

MRS GRANT OF LAGGAN.

Mrs Anne Grant, commonly styled of Laggan, to distinguish her from her contemporary, Mrs Grant of Carron, was born at Glasgow, in February 1755.  Her father, Mr Duncan Macvicar, was an officer in the army, and, by her mother, she was descended from the old family of Stewart, of Invernahyle, in Argyllshire.  Her early infancy was passed at Fort-William; but her father having accompanied his regiment to America, and there become a settler, in the State of New York, at a very tender age she was taken by her mother across the Atlantic, to her new home.  Though her third