Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
The Bonny Wood of Craigie Lea
By Robert Tannahill (17741810)T
Thou bonny wood of Craigie lea!
Near thee I passed life’s early day,
And won my Mary’s heart in thee.
Bloom bonny o’er thy flowery lea,
And a’ the sweets that ane can wish
Frae Nature’s hand are strewed on thee.
Thou bonny wood of Craigie Lea.
The cooshat croodles am’rously,
The mavis, down thy bughted glade,
Gars echo ring frae every tree.
Thou bonny wood of Craigie Lea.
Wha tear the nestlings ere they flee!
They ’ll sing you yet a canty sang,
Then, O, in pity, let them be!
Thou bonny wood of Craigie Lea.
Frae aff the norlan’ hills sae hie,
He lightly skiffs thy bonny bowers,
As laith to harm a flower in thee.
Thou bonny wood of Craigie Lea.
Or o’er the wide Atlantic sea;
The happy hours I ’ll ever mind,
That I, in youth, ha’e spent in thee.
Thou bonny wood of Craigie Lea.