The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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Bonnie Leezy.
Though I've enjoyed my youth in health,
An' liv'd a life both free an' easy;
Yet real delight I never felt
Until I saw my bonnie Leezy.
I've seen the Athol birk sae fair,
The mountain pine, an' simple daisy;
But nought I've seen can e'er compare
Wi' the modest gracefu' form o' Leezy.
An' liv'd a life both free an' easy;
Yet real delight I never felt
Until I saw my bonnie Leezy.
I've seen the Athol birk sae fair,
The mountain pine, an' simple daisy;
But nought I've seen can e'er compare
Wi' the modest gracefu' form o' Leezy.
I've seen the hare trip o'er the dale,
The lamb upon the lea sae gaily;
But when young Leezy trips the vale,
For lively ease, she dings them fairly.
Her een, the dew-draps o' the morn!
Hae gi'en my heart an unco heezy:
It canna be that pride or scorn
Can lodge within the breast o' Leezy.
The lamb upon the lea sae gaily;
But when young Leezy trips the vale,
For lively ease, she dings them fairly.
Her een, the dew-draps o' the morn!
Hae gi'en my heart an unco heezy:
It canna be that pride or scorn
Can lodge within the breast o' Leezy.
I winna greet, I winna dee,
Though love has made me something reezy;
But mirth shall never gang wi' me
If aught befa' my bonnie Leezy.
When her and I to rest are gane,
May shepherds strew our graves wi' daisy!
And when o'er us they make their maen,
Aye join my name wi' bonnie Leezy!
Though love has made me something reezy;
But mirth shall never gang wi' me
If aught befa' my bonnie Leezy.
When her and I to rest are gane,
May shepherds strew our graves wi' daisy!
And when o'er us they make their maen,
Aye join my name wi' bonnie Leezy!
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