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THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND. |
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Mk. Stenhouse was informed that this ballad was composed, about the beginning of the last century, by a young widow in Galloway, whose husband was drowned on a voyage to Holland. (Musical Museum, ed. 1853, iv. 115.) But some of the verses appear to be old, and one stanza will be remarked to be of common occurrence in ballad poetry.
A fragment of this piece was published in Herd's collection, (ii. 49.) Our copy is from Johnson's Museum, p. 118, with the omission, however, of one spurious and absurd stanza, while another, not printed by Johnson, is supplied from the note above cited to the new edition. Cunningham makes sense of the interpolated verses and retains them; otherwise his version is nearly the same as the present (Songs of Scotland, ii. 181.)
" The love that I have chosen,
I'll therewith be content, The saut sea shall be frozen
Before that I repent; |
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