Death & Dying
My Banes Are Buried in Yon Kirk-Yard
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
MY banes are buried in yon kirk-yard
Sae far ayont the sea,
And it is but my blithesome ghaist
That's speaking now to thee.
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Codex Note
From The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “My Banes Are Buried in Yon Kirk-Yard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/159/.
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Scott, Walter. “My Banes Are Buried in Yon Kirk-Yard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/159/.
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