X: 1
T:Gloomy Night
S:Digital Tradition, glomnite
N:Author: Robert Burns
N:Footnote: Tune: Roslin Castle (122)
O:Scots
Z:dt:glomnite
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:The gloomy night is gath'ring fast,
W:Loud roars the wild inconstant blast;
W:Yon murky cloud is filled with rain,
W:I see it driving o'er the plain;
W:The hunter now has left the moor,
W:The scatt'red coveys meet secure;
W:While I here wander, prest with care,
W:Along the lonely banks of Ayr.
W:
W:The Autumn mourns her rip'ning corn
W:By early Winter's ravage torn;
W:Across her placid, azure sky,
W:She sees the scowling tempest fly;
W:Chill runs my blood to hear it rave;
W:I think upon the stormy wave,
W:Where many a danger I must dare,
W:Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.
W:
W:'Tis not the surging billows'roar,
W:'Tis not that fatal, deadly shore;
W:'tho' death in ev'ry shape appear,
W:The wretched have no more to fear:
W:But round my heart the ties are bound;
W:The heart transpierc'd with many a wound;
W:These bleed afresh, those ties I tear,
W:To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.
W:
W:Farewell, old Coilia's hills and dales,
W:Her heathy moors and winding vales;
W:The scenes where wretched Fancy roves,
W:Pursuing past unhappy loves!
W:Farewell my friends! farewell my foes!
W:My peace with these, my love with those-
W:The bursting tears my heart declare,
W:Farewell, the bonie banks of Ayr!
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