Love

Gellatley's Song to the Deerhounds

by Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832

From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)

Love

HIE away, hie away,
Over bank and over brae,
Where the copsewood is the greenest,
Where the fountains glisten sheenest,
Where the lady-fern grows strongest,
Where the morning dew lies longest,
Where the black-cock sweetest sips it,
Where the fairy latest trips it :
Hie to haunts right seldom seen,
Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green,
Over bank and over brae,
Hie away, hie away.

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From Waverley (1814)

MLA

Scott, Walter. “Gellatley's Song to the Deerhounds.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/115/.

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Scott, Walter. “Gellatley's Song to the Deerhounds.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/115/.

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