Living
One Night As I Did Wander
From Poems and Songs, 1785
Living
One night as I did wander,
When corn begins to shoot,
I sat me down to ponder
Upon an auld tree root;
Auld Ayr ran by before me,
And bicker’d to the seas;
A cushat crooded o’er me,
That echoed through the braes
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Burns, Robert. “One Night As I Did Wander.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/69/.
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Burns, Robert. “One Night As I Did Wander.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/69/.
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