Why weep ye by the tide, lady

Why weep ye by the tide?

I'll wed ye to my youngest son

And ye shall be his bride

And ye shall be his bride, lady

Sae comely to be seen

But aye she let the tears doon fa'

For Jock o' Hazeldean.

Now let this willfu' grief be done

And dry that cheek sae pale

Young Frank is chief of Errington

And laird o' Langley-dale

His step is first in peaceful ha'

His sword in battle keen

But aye she let the tears doon fa'

For Jock o' Hazeldean.

A chain of gold ye shall not lack

Nor braid to bind your hair

Nor mettled hound, nor managed hawk

Nor palfrey fresh and fair.

And you, the foremost o' them a'

Shall ride our forrest queen

But aye she let the tears doon fa'

For Jock o' Hazeldean.

The kirk was deck'd at morningtide

The tapers glimmer'd fair

The priest and bridegroom wait the bride

And dame and knight were there

They sought her baith by bower and ha'

The lady was na' seen

She's o'er the border and awa'

Wi' Jock o' Hazeldean.

“Sir Walter Scott possessed, in an eminent degree, the power of imagination, with the gift of memory. If to this be added his strong tendency to venerate past things, we at once have the most obvious features of his intellectual character. A desultory course of reading had brought him into acquaintance with almost all the fictitious literature that existed before his own day, as well as the minutest points of British, and more particularly Scottish history. His easy and familiar habits had also introduced him to an extensive observation of the varieties of human character. His immense memory retained the ideas thus acquired, and his splendid imagination gave them new shape and colour. Thus, his literary character rests almost exclusively upon his power of combining and embellishing past events, and his skill in delineating natural character. In early life, accident threw his—works into the shape of verse—in later life, into prose; but, in whatever form they appear, the powers are not much different. The same magician is still at work, re-awaking the figures and events of history, or sketching the characters which we every day see around us, and investing the whole with the light of a most extraordinary fancy.”

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