Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
The Wedded Waters
By William Thom (1798?1848)G
Ury wi’ its murmur sweet,
They hae trysted aye to meet
Among the woods o’ Logie.
Like bride an’ bridegroom happy they,
Wooing smiles frae bank an’ brae,
Their wedded waters wind an’ play
Round leafy bowers at Logie.
They never sinder, never tyne,
An’, O, I thought sic meetings mine,
Yon happy hours at Logie!
But Fortune’s cauld an’ changefu’ e’e,
Gloomed bitterly on mine an’ me,
I looket syne, but cou’dna see
My sworn love at Logie.
The guilefu’ look, the guilefu’ vow,
That fled as flees the feckless dew
Frae withered leaves at Logie.
But Gadie wi’ its torrents keen,
An’ Ury wi’ its braes sae green,
They a’ can tell how true I ’ve been
To my lost love in Logie.