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The Lass O' Newsholme Dean |
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Title: The Lass O' Newsholme Dean Author: Bill o'th' Hoylus End [More Titles by Bill o'th' Hoylus End] [Having spent the whole of the afternoon in this romantic little glen, indulging in pleasant meditations, I began to wend my way down the craggy pass that leads to the bonny little hamlet of Goose Eye, and turning round to take a last glance at this enchanting vale--with its running whimpering stream--I beheld the "Lass o' Newsholme Dean." She was engaged in driving home a Cochin China hen and her chickens. Instantaneously I was seized with a poetic fit, and gazing upon her as did Robert Tannyhill upon his imaginary beauty, "The Flower of Dumblane," I struck my lyre, and, although the theme of my song turned out afterwards to be a respectable old woman of 70 winters, yet there is still a charm in my "Lass o' Newsholme Dean."] The lady gay may heed tha not, When yellow autumn's lustre shines, Od drat, who cares fur kings or queens, High fra the summit o' yon' crag, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |