44. The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

44. The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment

Tune—“I had a horse, I had nae mair.”


WHEN first I came to Stewart Kyle,
My mind it was na steady;
Where’er I gaed, where’er I rade,
A mistress still I had aye.

But when I came roun’ by Mauchline toun,	5
Not dreadin anybody,
My heart was caught, before I thought,
And by a Mauchline lady.