| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Twa Corbies | | Anonymous |
| | | AS 1 I was walking all alane, | |
| I heard twa corbies making a mane; | |
| The tane unto the t’other say, | |
| ‘Where sall we gang and dine the day?’ | |
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| ‘In behint yon auld fail dyke, | 5 |
| I wot there lies a new-slain knight; | |
| And naebody kens that he lies there | |
| But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. | |
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| ‘His hound is to the hunting gane, | |
| His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, | 10 |
| His lady’s ta’en another mate, | |
| So we may make our dinner sweet. | |
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| ‘Ye’ll sit on his white hause-bane, | |
| And I’ll pike out his bonny blue een; | |
| Wi’ ae lock o’ his gowden hair | 15 |
| We’ll theek our nest when it grows bare. | |
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| ‘Mony a one for him makes mane, | |
| But nane sall ken whae he is gane, | |
| O’er his white banes, when they are bare, | |
| The wind sall blaw for evermair.’ | 20 |
| | | Note 1. From Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1803. This is a Scottish version of the Three Ravens. [back] | | |
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