Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

134 . Fragment of Song—The Night was Still

THE NIGHT was still, and o’er the hill

The moon shone on the castle wa’;

The mavis sang, while dew-drops hang

Around her on the castle wa’;

Sae merrily they danced the ring

Frae eenin’ till the cock did craw;

And aye the o’erword o’ the spring

Was “Irvine’s bairns are bonie a’.”