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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Hew Ainslie. 17921878
619. Willie and Helen
‘WHAREFORE sou’d ye talk o’ love, | |
Unless it be to pain us? | |
Wharefore sou’d ye talk o’ love | |
Whan ye say the sea maun twain us?’ | |
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‘It ‘s no because my love is light, | 5 |
Nor for your angry deddy; | |
It ‘s a’ to buy ye pearlins bright, | |
An’ to busk ye like a leddy.’ | |
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‘O Willy, I can caird an’ spin, | |
Se ne’er can want for cleedin’; | 10 |
An’ gin I hae my Willy’s heart, | |
I hae a’ the pearls I’m heedin’. | |
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‘Will it be time to praise this cheek | |
Whan years an’ tears has blench’d it? | |
Will it be time to talk o’ love | 15 |
Whan cauld an’ care has quench’d it?’ | |
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He’s laid ae han’ about her waist— | |
The ither ‘s held to heaven; | |
An’ his luik was like the luik o’ man | |
Wha’s heart in twa is riven. | 20 |
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GLOSS: cleedin’] clothing. |