| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXIX. The Happy Dead
‘Proud Maisie is in the wood’ | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | From ‘The Heart of Midlothian’, Chap. XVI. |
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PROUD Maisie is in the wood, | |
| Walking so early; | |
| Sweet Robin sits on the bush, | |
| Singing so rarely. | |
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| ‘Tell me, thou bonny bird, | 5 |
| When shall I marry me?’— | |
| ‘When six braw gentlemen | |
| Kirkward shall carry ye.’ | |
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| ‘Who makes the bridal bed, | |
| Birdie, say truly?’— | 10 |
| ‘The grey-headed sexton | |
| That delves the grave duly. | |
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| ‘The glow-worm o’er grave and stone | |
| Shall light thee steady; | |
| The owl from the steeple sing,— | 15 |
| “Welcome, proud lady!”’ | | | |
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