| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | The Hazelwood Witch | | By Richard Gall (1776–1801) |
| | | FOR many lang year I ha’e heard frae my grannie | |
| Of brownies and bogles by yon castle wa’, | |
| Of auld withered hags that were never thought canny, | |
| And fairies that danced till they heard the cock craw. | |
| I leugh at her tales, and last ouk, i’ the gloaming | 5 |
| I dandered, alane, down the Hazelwood green; | |
| Alas! I was reckless, and rue sair my roaming, | |
| For I met a young witch wi’ twa bonnie black een. | |
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| I thought o’ the starns in a frosty night glancing, | |
| Whan a’ the lift round them is cloudless and blue; | 10 |
| I lookit again, and my heart fell a dancing; | |
| Whan I wad hae spoken she glamoured my mou’, | |
| O wae to her cantrips! for dumpish I wander; | |
| At kirk or at market there’s nought to be seen; | |
| For she dances before me wherever I dander, | 15 |
| The Hazelwood witch wi’ the bonnie black een. | | | | |
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