{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Bellfast_mountains_Peterhead_The_Bellfast_mountains/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Bellfast_mountains_Peterhead_The_Bellfast_mountains","id":"wikisource_Bellfast_mountains_Peterhead_The_Bellfast_mountains","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bellfast_mountains_(Peterhead)/The_Bellfast_mountains","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Ireland","Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Romance","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"The BELLFAST MOUNTAINS.\n\nOn the Bellfa\u017ft mountains,\n\nI heard a lovely maid,\n\nMaking her lamentation,\n\ndown by yon chry\u017ftal \u017ftream,\n\nShe \u017fays I am confined,\n\nall in the bands of love,\n\nBy a bri\u017fk young weaver\n\nwho does uncon\u017ftant prove.\n\nShe \u017fays, my loving Johnny,\n\ndont treat me with di\u017fdain,\n\nTo leave me here behind you,\n\nmy \u017forrows to bewail.\n\nShe clapped her hands and cried,\n\nJohnny, love farewell.\n\nAnd on the\u017fe Bellfa\u017ft mountains\n\nmy \u017ftory I will tell.\n\nIt's not your Bellfa\u017ft mountain's\n\ncan give me any relief,\n\nNor is it in their power\n\nto ea\u017fe me of my grief.\n\nShe cla\u017fped bur arms around me,\n\nlike violets round the vine,\n\nThat bonny weaver laddie\n\nthat stole this heart of mine.\n\nIF I had all the diamonds\n\nthat grows in yonder hill,\n\nwould them to my laddie,\n\nif he would for me feel.\n\nIf I had a tongue to prattle,\n\nI would tell my love fine tales,\n\nto the bonny weaver laddie,\n\nmy mind I would reveal.\n\nNow \u017fince my love is from me gone\n\nhis face I'll never \u017fee,\n\nHe's left me here behind him\n\nin woe and mi\u017fery.\n\nBut I hope he will return\n\n\u017fafe back to me again;\n\nThat bonny weaver laddie\n\nthat's won this heart of mine.\n\nThis work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.\n\nPublic domainPublic domainfalsefalse","title":"Bellfast mountains (Peterhead)/The Bellfast mountains","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":239}