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A new selection of miscellaneous pieces, in verse

Chapter 23: Song,
By Christian Gray
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A compact volume of lyric and occasional verse alongside epistolary pieces that blend personal remembrance, devotional reflection, and social gratitude. The prefatory material frames poems composed across health struggles and domestic solitude; many pieces evoke childhood landscapes and rural detail, while others offer moral anecdotes, petitions, tributes to patrons, and metrical renderings of popular fragments. Songs and a longer metrical tale diversify the forms, and recurring themes of thankfulness, faith, physical affliction, and quiet resilience are rendered in plain, heartfelt language aiming for sincere expression rather than formal polish.

Song,

In answer to

“I’M WEARIN’ AWA’ JEAN.”

Oh! you are happy now Jo!
Your care is a’ through Jo!
Nae pain reaches you
In the land o’ the leal.
Our lassie wan awa’ Jo!
Nor muckle sorrow saw Jo!
Now I mourn twa
In the land o’ the leal.
But a’ is guid and weel Jo!
Though nature it maun feel Jo!
Ilk pain will be heal
In the land o’ the leal.
My locks are thin and grey Jo!
My powers fast decay Jo!
I’m laith lang to stay,
Fae the land o’ the leal.
But my tears drap in vain Jo!
Alane I maun remain Jo!
Till we meet again
In the land o’ the leal.
Though trouble here us tries Jo!
’Tis blessing in disguise Jo!
To mak’ us mair prize
The land o’ the leal.