Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
The Lass of Lammermoor
By Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)I
Atween the corn and blooming heather,
Around her neck red gowd she wore,
And in her cap she wore a feather;
Her step was light, her eyes were bright,
Her face shone out like summer weather;
“Birds sing, sweet lass, they love to see
Sic beauty ’mang the blooming heather.”
And sic a toss she gave her feather,
“Man, saw ye ne’er a bonnie lass
Before amang the blooming heather?”
“Pass on, pass on, so fair a ane
Might be less scornfu’; I would rather
Ha’e one whom I ken in her snood,
Than thee in thy bright cap and feather.”