Heather Heywood, "My Bonnie Moorhen". This is a folksong that was first collected by James Hogg in his Jacobite Relics in 1819. It's almost universally thought to be an allegorical song with veiled reference to Bonnie Prince Charlie, from the days when support for him had to be concealed. Songs of that sort are not entirely unheard of, but I confess myself skeptical of such precision allegory in a folksong. Nonetheless, the song is very clearly Jacobite, making use of Jacobite imagery, and depicts the Jacobite cause as beautiful but hunted, and yet still hopeful of resurgence.
