Love
Comin’ Through the Rye
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Stevenson (1912)
Love
Comin’ through the rye, poor body,
Comin’ through the rye,
She draiglet a’ her petticoatie,
Comin’ through the rye.
Oh Jenny’s a’ wat poor body,
Jenny’s seldom dry;
She draiglet a’ her petticoatie,
Comin’ through the rye.
Gin a body meet a body
Comin’ through the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
Gin a body meet a body
Comin’ through the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warld ken?
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MLA
Burns, Robert. “Comin’ Through the Rye.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/554/.
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Burns, Robert. “Comin’ Through the Rye.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/554/.
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