Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 448. Song—Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain |
| | | | | Tune—“The Carlin of the Glen.” |
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| YOUNG JAMIE, pride of a’ the plain, | |
| Sae gallant and sae gay a swain, | |
| Thro’ a’ our lasses he did rove, | |
| And reign’d resistless King of Love. | |
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| But now, wi’ sighs and starting tears, | 5 |
| He strays amang the woods and breirs; | |
| Or in the glens and rocky caves, | |
| His sad complaining dowie raves:— | |
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| “I wha sae late did range and rove, | |
| And chang’d with every moon my love, | 10 |
| I little thought the time was near, | |
| Repentance I should buy sae dear. | |
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| “The slighted maids my torments see, | |
| And laugh at a’ the pangs I dree; | |
| While she, my cruel, scornful Fair, | 15 |
| Forbids me e’er to see her mair.” | |
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