O JENNY DEAR, I'VE COURTED LANG. Susanna Blamire Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII. 1842 pp. 240-241.

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O JENNY DEAR , I'VE COURTED LANG . Air — Lucy Campbell . O JENNY dear , I've courted lang , I've telt my tale and sung my sang , And yet I fear I'm i' the wrang , For ye'll na mak a wedding o't . In winter when the frost and snaw Wi' bitter blast around wad blaw , I'd o'er the moor , nor mind it a' , In hopes ye'd mak a wedding o't . And gin ye smil'd or kindly spak , It smooth'd the road , and help'd me back ; I thought nae answer I wad tak , For we wad mak a wedding o't . Now , when I gae to kirk or fair , The laddies scoff , the lassies jeer ; — " Is this poor Jock ? — the good be here ! For sure he's made a wedding o't . What is become of a' his fun ? Alak ! his joyfu' days are done ; Or else he's pawn'd his dancing shoon , Sin he has made a wedding o't . Sure marriage is a dreadfu' thing ! Ye mind 'tis only i' the spring That little birdies chirp and sing , Or , till they've made a wedding o't . " Then up spak honest Johnny Bell : " My bairns , I ance was young mysel I've mony a blithsome tale to tell Sin first I made a wedding o't ; My Tibby was a winsome bride , — Nay , yet she is her auld man's pride ! Nae faut i' her I ever spyed , Sin first we made a wedding o't : Ilk day we live we fonder grow , Though buckl'd fifty years ago ; Here's comfort for ye , young ones a' , Then haste ye , mak a wedding o't .