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268		OUR FAMILIAR SONGS.


There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart. Yet it was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene, Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh! no — it was something more exquisite still.				'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near, Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear, And who felt how the best charms of nature improve, When we see them reflected from looks that we love. Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best* Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease, And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.

FOR THE SAKE O' SOMEBODY. Robert Burns wrote these verses, all but a line or two, which belonged to a very indifferent old Jacobite song. The air to which they are now sung is called "The Highland Watch's Farewell."

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l.My heart is sair, I daur - na tell, My heart is sair for some - bo-dy; 2. Ye pow'rs that smile on vir - tuous love, Ol sweet -ly smile on some - bo-dy;

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I could wake a win - ter night, For the sake o> some - bo-dv. Oh hon, for some - bo -dv! Frae ilka dan -ger keep him free, And send me safe my some - bo-dy. Oh hon, for some - bo-dy!