Edinburgh Review.

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SONG.

BY ROBERT GILFILLAN, AUTHOR OF “ORIGINAL SONGS.”

Tune.—­“Gin a body meet a body.”

  Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie,
    Dear art thou to me;
  Let me think, my bonnie lassie,
    I am lov’d by thee!

  I speak na of thy ringlets bright,
    Nor of thy witching ’ee;
  But this I’ll tell thy bonnie sel’,
    That dear art thou to me!

  O! beauty it is rare, lassie,
    And beauty it is thine,
  Yet my love is no for beauty’s sake,
    ’Tis just I wish thee mine!

  Thy smile might match an angel’s smile,
    Gif such, save thee, there be;
  Yet though thy charms my bosom warms,
    I’ll tell na them to thee!

  Thy sunny face has nature’s grace,
    Thy form is winsome fair;
  But when for long thou’st heard that sang,
    O! wherefore hear it mair?

  Thy voice, soft as the hymn of morn,
    Or evening’s melodie,
  May still excel, as a’ can tell,
    Then wherefore hear’t frae me?

  Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie,
    Think na’t strange o’ me,
  That when thy beauty’s praised by a’,
    Thou get’st nae praise frae me?

  For wha wad praise what none can praise? 
    Yet, lassie, list to me;
  Gie me thy love, and in return
    I’ll sing thy charms to thee!

Metropolitan.

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ANECDOTE GALLERY.

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RECORDS.  BY THE AUTHOR OF “MONSIEUR TONSON.”

An Odd Angler.

Dr. Birch was very fond of angling, and devoted much time to that amusement.  In order to deceive the fish, he had a dress constructed, which, when he put it on, made him appear like an old tree.  His arms he conceived would appear like branches, and the line like a long spray.  In this sylvan attire he used to take root by the side of a favourite stream, and imagined that his motions might seem to the fish to be the effect of the wind.—­He pursued this amusement for some years in the same habit, till he was ridiculed out of it by his friends.

Jack Spencer.

It is said that he once contrived to collect a party of hunch-backed men to dine with him, some of whom indignantly quitted the table.  Another whimsical party which he assembled at his house consisted merely of a number of persons all of whom stuttered; but this meeting at first threatened serious consequences, for each supposed he was mocked by the other, and it was with great difficulty that their host restored peace, by acknowledging the ludicrous purpose of his invitation.

Dr. Johnson.