Love
Balmawhapple Sings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
IT'S up Glenbarchan's braes I gaed,
And o'er the bent of Killiebraid,
And mony a weary cast I made,
To cuittle the moor-fowl's tail.
If up a bonny black-cock should spring,
To whistle him down wi' a slug in his wing,
And strap him on to my lunzie string,
Right seldom would I fail.
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Codex Note
From Waverley (1814)
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