Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

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WHA'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?                                             435
was written in her seventy-sixth year. Another closes with these lines:
Where souls angelic soar,
Thither repair; Let this vain world no more
Lull and ensnare. That heaven I love so well Still in my heart shall dwell; All things around me tell
Rest is found there.
The air of " Wha'll be king but Charlie?" is found in an old collection called "Airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands."