Living

Out Over The Forth

by Robert Burns 1759–1796

From Poems and Songs, 1791

Living

Out over the Forth, I look to the North;
But what is the north and its Highlands to me?
The south nor the east gie ease to my breast,
The far foreign land, or the wide rolling sea.

But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.

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Burns, Robert. “Out Over The Forth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/311/.

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