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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Burns. 17591796
506. Hark! the Mavis
CA’ the yowes to the knowes, | |
Ca’ them where the heather grows, | |
Ca’ them where the burnie rows, | |
My bonnie dearie. | |
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Hark! the mavis’ evening sang | 5 |
Sounding Clouden’s woods amang, | |
Then a-faulding let us gang, | |
My bonnie dearie. | |
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We’ll gae down by Clouden side, | |
Through the hazels spreading wide, | 10 |
O’er the waves that sweetly glide | |
To the moon sae clearly. | |
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Yonder Clouden’s silent towers, | |
Where at moonshine midnight hours | |
O’er the dewy bending flowers | 15 |
Fairies dance sae cheery. | |
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Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; | |
Thou’rt to Love and Heaven sae dear, | |
Nocht of ill may come thee near, | |
My bonnie dearie. | 20 |
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Fair and lovely as thou art, | |
Thou hast stown my very heart; | |
I can die—but canna part, | |
My bonnie dearie. | |
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While waters wimple to the sea; | 25 |
While day blinks in the lift sae hie; | |
Till clay-cauld death shall blin’ my e’e, | |
Ye shall be my dearie. | |
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Ca’ the yowes to the knowes… | |