Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Cluden | | Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | CHORUS.—Ca’ the yowes to the knowes, | |
| Ca’ them where the heather grows, | |
| Ca’ them where the burnie rows, | |
| My bonny dearie! | |
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| Hark! the mavis’ evening-sang | 5 |
| Sounding Cluden’s woods amang; | |
| Then a faulding let us gang, | |
| My bonny dearie. | |
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| We ’ll gae down by Cluden side, | |
| Through the hazels spreading wide, | 10 |
| O’er the waves that sweetly glide | |
| To the moon sae clearly. | |
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| Yonder Cluden’s silent towers, | |
| Where at moonshine midnight hours, | |
| O’er the dewy bending flowers, | 15 |
| Fairies dance sae cheery. | |
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| Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; | |
| Thou ’rt to love and heaven sae dear, | |
| Nocht of ill may come thee near, | |
| My bonny dearie. | 20 |
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| Fair and lovely as thou art, | |
| Thou hast stown my very heart; | |
| I can die,—but canna part, | |
| My bonny dearie. | |
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| While waters wimple to the sea, | 25 |
| While day blinks in the lift sae hie, | |
| Till clay-cauld death shall blin’ my ee, | |
| Ye shall be my dearie. | | | | |
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