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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1872.
I bid you not- remember me,
As I must- thee and thine.
But ever count- me as a friend
And Friendship's Valentine -
G. -
"Katie loe's me"
("My first attempt" - On parting with Katie McColl
who left Fortingal for her home in the Island of Mull
Nov. 1844 - ) - We never met again. -
Now bleak November's angry blast
Roars through the stormy glen
And winter drives his snawy car
Out o'er the cheerless plain -
But why should I fear then or wherefore be sad?
Oh what makes the tear glisten oft in my 'ee?
For what seems before me but joy and rejoicing
Since weel I loe Katie, and Katie loes me.
It's no the dreary winter storm
That gies me now complain
It's no the withered broomy knowe
That gies me ony pain.
But aye there is something that weel I could tell
And frae that sma' something I've meikle to dree
I look to the future wi care and wi sorrow
Though weel I loe Katie and Katie loes me -
