| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Burns. 1759–1796 |
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| 494. Jean |
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| OF a' the airts the wind can blaw, | |
| I dearly like the west, | |
| For there the bonnie lassie lives, | |
| The lassie I lo'e best: | |
| There wild woods grow, and rivers row, | 5 |
| And monie a hill between; | |
| But day and night my fancy's flight | |
| Is ever wi' my Jean. | |
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| I see her in the dewy flowers, | |
| I see her sweet and fair: | 10 |
| I hear her in the tunefu' birds, | |
| I hear her charm the air: | |
| There 's not a bonnie flower that springs | |
| By fountain, shaw, or green; | |
| There 's not a bonnie bird that sings, | 15 |
| But minds me o' my Jean. | |
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GLOSS: airts] points of the compass. row] roll. |
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