Auld Rob Morris
auld rob morris there's auld rob morris that wons in yon glen, he's the king o' gude fellows, and wale o' auld men; he has gowd in his coffers, he has owsen and kine, and ae bonie lass, his dautie and mine. she's fresh as the m, the fairest in may; she's sweet as the ev'ning amang the new hay; as blythe and as artless as the lambs on the lea, ao my heart as the light to my e'e. but oh! she's an heiress, auld robin's a laird, and my daddie has nought but a cot-house and yard; a wooer like me maunna hope to e speed, the wounds i must hide that will soon be my dead. the day es to me, but delight brings me nane; the night es to me, but my rest it is gane; i wander my lane like a night-troubled ghaist, and i sigh as my heart it wad burst in my breast. o had she but been of a lree, i then might hae hop'd she wad smil'd upon me! o how past descriving had then been my bliss, as now my distra nae words express.