AULD LANG SYNE DONE UP IN TARTAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 636, 11 October 1878, Page 2

AULD LANG SYNE DONE UP IN TARTAN.

(From the Scottish Highlander.] ; - Should speech be e’er forgot. An* ilever brooht tae min 1 For she’ll be spoke in Paradise In the days o’ auld latigayne. When Eve, all fresh in beauty’s oharmßf First met fond Adam’s view, ; The first word that he spoke to her Was “Cia mar tha sibheen diugh.’* : And Adam in his garden fair, When e’en on the day did close, The dish that he’ll to supper teuk ' Was always Athole brose. When Adam from his leafy bower Cam’ oot at break b’ day, ,■ He’ll alway, for his morning teuk. A ouach o’ uisge’beath.” And when wi’ Eve he’d hae a crack ■ He’ll teuk’t hiaaneeahin-hom And on the tap ye’Uweol might mark A bonny braw Cairngorm. . The aneeshin-mull is fine, iny freens,'' ■ The sneeshin-mull is grand, We’ll teuk a hearty sneesh, -ray freens, An’ pass’t frae hand to hand, '■ When man first faud the want o’ claes The wind and cauld to fieg, . ; ; He twisted round about hia • The tarton feile beag, On’ music first on earth w&8 heard - In Gaelic accents deep, ' When Tubal in his oxter squeezed ' The blether o’a sheep. ; ; The braw bagpipes is grand, my freehs, . The braw bagpipes is fine,! < - We’ll teuk’t another pibroch' yet, For the days o’ Auld liangilyneV • ■; ‘ Oabi Tulaich.