Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
Willy Drowned in Yarrow
By Anonymous“W
And Willy ’s wondrous bonny;
And Willy heght to marry me,
Gin e’er he married ony.
This night I ’ll make it narrow;
For a’ the livelang winter night
I ly twined of my marrow.
Pou’d you the rose or lily?
Or came you by yon meadow green?
Or saw you my sweet Willy?”
She sought him braid and narrow;
Syne in the cleaving of a craig,
She found him drowned in Yarrow.