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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Oh! never was baby's smile so meek
When she felt the tear drop on her cheek;
And never was baby's look so wae
When she saw the stern auld carle gae;
But a' his e'eless and elfin train,
And a' his ghaists and gyes are gane:
Then gleids that gleam'd in the darksome shaw,
And his fairies had flown the last of a'.
Then the poor auld carle was blythe to flee
Away frae the queen isle of the sea,
And never mair seeks the walks of men,
Unless in the disk of the gloaming glen.
When she felt the tear drop on her cheek;
And never was baby's look so wae
When she saw the stern auld carle gae;
But a' his e'eless and elfin train,
And a' his ghaists and gyes are gane:
Then gleids that gleam'd in the darksome shaw,
And his fairies had flown the last of a'.
Then the poor auld carle was blythe to flee
Away frae the queen isle of the sea,
And never mair seeks the walks of men,
Unless in the disk of the gloaming glen.
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