However, as I say, these times of enjoyment were passed and gone with
me; the mair's the pity that pleasure should fly sae fast away,--and
as I could nae make sport I thought I should not mar any; so out I
sauntered into the fresh cold air, and sat down behind that old oak,
and looked abroad on the wide sea. I had my ain sad thoughts, ye may
think, at the time: it was in that very bay my blythe goodman perished,
with seven more in his company, and on that very bank where ye see the
waves leaping and foaming, I saw seven stately corses streeked, but
the dearest was the eighth. It was a woful sight to me, a widow, with
four bonnie boys, with nought to support them but these twa hands, and
God's blessing, and a cow's grass. I have never liked to live out of
sight of this bay since that time; and mony's the moonlight night I
sit looking on these watery mountains, and these waste shores; it does
my heart good, whatever it may do to my head. So ye see it was Hallowmass
night; and looking on sea and land sat I; and my heart wandering to
other thoughts soon made me forget my youthful company at hame.
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