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The wondrous shepherd James Hogg / Was happy with his good sheep dog, / Meditating o'er his sweet lays / While his fleecy flocks did graze.
His education it came late / After he reached to man's estate, / While his flocks were busy feeding / His favourite authors he was reading.
Wondrous tales he did rehearse / Of witches both in prose and verse, / And he in fairy tales did glory / Traditions of each shepherd's story.
The shepherd he sang late and early / Of the deeds of bold Prince Charley, / And how the charming bonnie Flora / Soothed the Prince when in his sorrow.
Few songs possess so much vigor / As his gathering of McGregor, / The lover's heart is all aflame / To meet lassie when the kye comes hame.
But one who loved the shepherd's songs / And sang them unto countless throngs, / Great Kennedy has passed away / Now mournful is our Scottish lay.