Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

_TO MY WIFE_

_Take_, _dear_, _my little sheaf of songs_,

_For_, _old or new_,

_All that is good in them belongs_

_Only to you_;

_And_, _singing as when all was young_,

_They will recall_

_Those others_, _lived but left unsung_—

_The bent of all_.