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Maybe ye're no lang for this warld, but while ye're in it ye sall be my ain lassie, an' I'll be your ain mammie, evermair." So, like Naomi of old, Elspie Murray "laid the child in her bosom and became nurse unto it." But for her, the life of our Olive Rothesay with all its influences, good or evil, small or great, as yet unknown would have expired like a faint-flickering taper.
O that I had ne'er been married, I would never had nae care; Now I've gotten wife and bairns, They cry crowdie evermair. Crowdie ance, crowdie twice: Crowdie three times in a day: An ye crowdie ony mair, Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away. 25th, Christmas Morning.
As Tammy raised the keschie to his shoulder he exclaimed in a kind of exultation, "They think me a puir 'natural, that can do nae gude to man or beast, but for a' that it's myself that's pit mair light upon wir isle as ever men and money will pit, though the Laird puir body speaks aboot it evermair, and evermair will speak.
Oh, that I were where Helen lies, For nicht and day on me she cries, Oh, that I were where Helen lies On fair Kirkconnel Lea. Oh, Helen fair, beyond compare, I'll mak' a garland o' your hair Shall bind my heart for evermair Until the day I dee. And Nellie Sinclair never in all her life sang that song so well as she did that night; and she never sang it again.
As he did so, having once more forgot my presence, he took back to his singing; and now I could hear the words, which were those from the old song of the TWA CORBIES endlessly repeated: "And over his banes when they are bare The wind sall blaw for evermair!" I have said there was no music in the man.
"Oh, I will cast off my gay costly gown, And follow thee on from town unto town; And I will take the gold kaims from my hair, And follow my true love for evermair." Whereupon Hynde Horn lets his beggar weeds fall, and shines there the foremost and noblest of all the king's companie as he says:
And so I should like to call my baby Olive, for the sake of the beautiful angel. It may be foolish but 'tis a fancy of mine. Olive Rothesay! It sounds well, and Olive Rothesay she shall be." "Amen; and may she be an angel to ye a' her days. And ye'll mind o' the blessed dream, and love her evermair.
It was heaven's wull that in them he should transcend a' the minnesingers o' this warld. But they're too perfeckly beautifu' to be envied by mortal man therefore let his memory in them be hallowed for evermair. August, 1834. Shepherd. I was wrang in ever hintin ae word in disparagement o' Burn's Cottar's Saturday Night.
That night Kitty lay sleepless on her bed caught in a storm of sobbing; she recalled all the sweet details of her love episode, all the charms of her lover which were now buried for ever in the black lynn. Then she sang to herself softly, 'Nae living man I'll love again, Now that my lovely knight is slain. With ae lock of his gowden hair I'll bind my heart for evermair.
The snow will soon cover us, and when the spring comes there will only be a few bleached bones. Upon my soul it is the kind of death I always wanted. And he quoted softly to himself a verse of an old Scots ballad: 'Mony's the ane for him maks mane, But nane sall ken whar he is gane. Ower his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sall blaw for evermair.
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