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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

‘Proud Maisie is in the wood’

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

From ‘The Heart of Midlothian’, Chap. XVI.

PROUD Maisie is in the wood,

Walking so early;

Sweet Robin sits on the bush,

Singing so rarely.

‘Tell me, thou bonny bird,

When shall I marry me?’—

‘When six braw gentlemen

Kirkward shall carry ye.’

‘Who makes the bridal bed,

Birdie, say truly?’—

‘The grey-headed sexton

That delves the grave duly.

‘The glow-worm o’er grave and stone

Shall light thee steady;

The owl from the steeple sing,—

“Welcome, proud lady!”’