MANSE OF FYVIE 



Now there is an old Scottish belief that lovers 

 who part at a bridge will meet never more ; and so 

 it proved with this fond couple. Annie died, some 

 say of a broken heart, others of a broken back 

 owing to her brother's brutality. 



" When Andrew name frae Embro' cam 



Wi' muckle grief and sorrow 

 ' My love is dead for me to-day, 

 I'll die for her to-morrow. 



" * Now will I speed to the green kirkyard, 



To the green kirkyard o' Fyvie ; 

 With tears I'll water my love's grave, 

 Till I follow Tifty's Annie.' " 



No doubt was ever cast on Andrew's fidelity ; but 

 although he may have mourned over his sweetheart's 

 grave, he did not stay in the kirkyard, for it is told 

 of him that long after her death he was in a company 

 in Edinburgh where the ballad of Tifty's Annie was 

 sung, which so deeply affected him that the buttons 

 flew off his doublet ! A stone in " the green kirkyard 

 of Fyvie " bears the following inscription : 



HEIR LYES AGN 

 ES -SMITH -WHO 

 DEPARTIT THE 

 19 OF JANVARI 

 1673. 



while Andrew Lainmie is commemorated by a stone 

 figure of a trumpeter on the battlements of one of 

 the castle towers. 



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