Monody,  on  a  Lady.
We'll  search  through  the  garden  for  each  silly  flower,  .  lb.
And  gowden  flowers  sae  rare  upon't ;  S.  My  Lord a-hunting\
The  flower  and  fancy  o'  the  west ; lb.
In  Roslin's  fairest  bower

I'll  shelter  this  sweet  flower,  .         S.  My  Love's  a  winsome  i

Propitious  Powers  screen'd  the  young  flow'rs.  Nature's  Law.
Theflow'r  of  ancient  nations; /^.
Now  rosy  May  comes  in  wi'  flowers.
To  deck  oer  gay  green  spreading  bowers;  S.  Now  rosy  Mayf

And  strew'd  the  lea  wi'  flowers  :       .S*.  Now  Spring  has  clad  f

Not  vernal  show'rs  to  budding  flow'rs,

S.  Now  ttfestlin  winds  t
But  love  is  far  a  sweeter  flow'r
Amid  life's  thorny  path  o'  care.    .  S.  O  bonie  was  yon  rosy  f

And  here's  the  flower  that  I  lo'e  best —
The  rose  that's  like  the  snaw.  S.  O  Kenmum^s  on  and  awa  t

Hie  sweetest  flower  that  deck'd  the  mead,

Now  trodden  like  the  vilest  weed,  .     S.  O  Lassie,  art  thou  f

The  bees  hum  round  the  breathing  flow'rs :

^.  O  Logan!  sTtteetlyi
*  Sips  nectar  in  the  op'ning  flower,  .  ,      S.  O  Phely,\

Or  why  sae  sweet  a  flower  as  love,
Depend  on  Fortune's  shining?    .         .S.  O poortith  cauld,\

How  blest,  ye  flowers  that  round  her  blaw,

S.  O  wat  ye  wJia's  in  \

And  she,  a  lovely  little  flower lb.
I  see  her  in  the  dewy  flowers,  .    S.  Of  a'  the  airts  t

There's  not  a  bonie  flower  that  springs,
By  fountain,  shaw,  or  green  ; lb.
On  a  bank  of  flowers  one  summer's  day,

.S.  On  a  bank  of  flowers^
With  flowers  so  white  and  leaves  so  green,

S.  On  Cessnock  banks  ^
When  flow'r*reviving  rains  are  past ;      .       ...      lb.
