Mythology & Folklore
Davie Gellatley's Song
From Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern (1894)
False love, and hast thou play'd me this
In summer among the flowers?
I will repay thee back again
In winter among the showers.
Unless again, again, my love,
Unless you turn again;
As you with other maidens rove,
I'll smile on other men.
The Knight's to the mountain
His bugle to wind;
The Lady's to greenwood
Her garland to bind.
The bower of Burd Ellen
Has moss on the floor,
That the step of Lord William
Be silent and sure.
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “Davie Gellatley's Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/36/.
Chicago
Scott, Walter. “Davie Gellatley's Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/36/.
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