I Gaed A Waefu Gate Yestreen
i gaed a waefu' gate yestreen i gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, a gate, i fear, i'll dearly rue; i gat my death frae twa sweet een, twa lovely een o'bonie blue. 'twas not her golden ris bright, her lips like roses wat wi' dew, her heaving bosom, lily-white— it was her een sae bonie blue. she talk'd, she smil'd, my heart she wyl'd; she charm'd my soul i wist na how; and aye the stound, the deadly wound, cam frae her een so bonie blue. but “spare to speak, and spare to speed;” she'll aiblins listen to my vow: should she refuse, i'll lay my dead to her twa een sae bonie blue.