Burns and his Highland Mary.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1775, 23 December 1885, Page 3

Burns and his Highland Mary.

The follow!' I!,' bt-auiifiil poem appeared some time back in an Amevicau paper. It was penned by a lady, who, it is said is oontrolled to write off poetry, and prose perporting to emanate from departed spirits. Fair lady, that I come to you A strauger-bard. fu’ weel I ken For ye've known naught of me, Bare through The lays I’ve pour'd through Sootia’sglen; But when I speak o’ gliding Ayr, O' hawthorn shades and fragrant /eras, O’ Doon and Highland Mary fair, Mayhap ye’ll think o’ Robert Burns. I am the lad-and why Fm here, I heard the guda dame when she said She’d know, in joyous spirit-sphere. If Burns wa - wi’ his Mary wed. I sought to tell her o’ our joy— No muokle impress could I make ; Aud, lady, I have flown *o see If ye’d my message to her take. Tell her that when I pass’d from earth, My augel lassie, crown’d wi' flowers, Met me wi’ glowing, love-lit torch And led me to the nuptial bowers j That all we’d dreara’d o’ wedded bliss, Aud more, was meted to us there ; And sweeter was my dearie's kiss Than on the flow’ry banks o’ Ayr. Where love’s celestial fountains play’d And rosebuds burst, aud seraphs sang, And myrtle twined, our couch to shade, I clasped the love I’d mourn'd sa lang ; And while by augel-harps were pay'd Th bonnie “ bridal serenade,” Though na gown'd priest the kirk-rite said, Burns was wi' Highland wed I There's na destroying death frost here, To nip the hope-buds ere they bloom ; The bridal tour is through the spheres, Eternity the •* honeymoon ” And now, my lady, if ye’ll bear These words unto the anxious dame, I think I can ye so reward You'd ne'er be sorry that I came.