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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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THE BRAES O YARROW—O

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Herd's MSS, I, 35, II, 181.

1

I dreamd a dreary dream last night,
God keep us a' frae sorrow!
I dreamd I pu'd the birk sae green
Wi my true luve on Yarrow.’

2

‘I'll read your dream, my sister dear,
I'll tell you a' your sorrow;
You pu'd the birk wi your true luve,
He's killd, he's killd on Yarrow!’

3

‘O gentle wind, that blaweth south
To where my love repaireth,
Convey a kiss from his dear mouth,
And tell me how he fareth!

4

‘But oer yon glen run armed men,
Have wrought me dule and sorrow;
They've slain, they've slain the comliest swain,
He bleeding lies on Yarrow.’