THE FIRST NEWS FRAE AULD SCOTLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1620, 16 October 1874, Page 393

THE FIRST NEWS FRAE AULD SCOTLAND.

Hame letters I I doubt there'll benane for me; . .ihislang,timc past they hac been gby few;' Naembhie are left siulmuckle care '.['' To write' the feckless.auld.man noo;'' '. '■"' Thar's fnbnie'a change ganeowre my head;"" That is'uncjd careworn now, 1 and grey": ' And monies change owre theguid anldliamej ' i Sin' eae weary I watched the leelatig day ' -' For the first news frae,auld-Scotland. We'were first to iia'e' trod "Oii "'these 'alien '';' shores,-'''""" '•"""',' ''"'"' ' : '" u .. ■ i): '" : " And the liame-scehes cam' freshly in ilka.e'e, Where We wandered sae aft'wi' the dear anes ; v : - H' ' .! tow ho aolhth 'And the blue heatherbells blooni'd'bonnilie: Ilk.heart was fu' 0' the auld lang sync, '.••' And , the hearty, cheering went brawly As we watch'd.tho vessel out owre the sea— , . Tho' but unco slowly—come sailing down .: ( - Wi'.thc first news frae auld Scotland. ' I mind as well's it were but noo.. uiHow 1 graspit ilk hah' as it were my fiefs; For it seem'd to • me. they had come straight , OUt ' : ~. • ,!,' ■■:,-.: -..-. . Frae those J had left onthc Greenock piers. But whn, of sae.wecl, ,' ', -, Will gie a thought to the auld man noo?. For mpnie are deadj and niair lire changed, ' Sin' I welcomed sae leal the long-sought crew " '•- ' '•■'■' Wi' the first news frae auld Scotland, I hae made ine a hame i'-the,'strahger land : "I hae gather'd reim' me hearts couthie and ■' true ;' .' : '-' ,: "•■ '" ■ ■' ; ■'■ ; And Otago's bonuie " bahks and braes " Ha'e heartfeltties to bind me nob : Yet weell kerithcymaWhaud for mc ■'■>: Nae memories 'sae« leisome as cameto me U then; si; ? Si«r ali ii i -■■;■■■. i <u ■■>-," O'er the braid, braid seas* from, my native , , land, : ,- . -;-.•' ....,;; rf ..,''.-.-::,. • , As I heard, frae the lips p' my. countrymen, ~,. The'first-news o'auld Scotland.:, : j