Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Lammermoor | | The Lass of Lammermoor | | Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| | | I MET a lass on Lammermoor | |
| 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, | 5 |
| Her face shone out like summer weather; | |
| “Birds sing, sweet lass, they love to see | |
| Sic beauty ’mang the blooming heather.” | |
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| O, sic a geck she gave her head, | |
| And sic a toss she gave her feather, | 10 |
| “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, | 15 |
| Than thee in thy bright cap and feather.” | | | | |
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