Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 469. Song—Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes |
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| Chorus.—Ca’the yowes to the knowes, | |
| Ca’ them where the heather grows, | |
| Ca’ them where the burnie rowes, | |
| My bonie Dearie. | |
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| HARK the mavis’ e’ening sang, | 5 |
| Sounding Clouden’s woods amang; | |
| Then a-faulding let us gang, | |
| My bonie Dearie. | |
| Ca’ the yowes, &c. | |
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| We’ll gae down by Clouden side, | 10 |
| Thro’ the hazels, spreading wide, | |
| O’er the waves that sweetly glide, | |
| To the moon sae clearly. | |
| Ca’ the yowes, &c. | |
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| Yonder Clouden’s silent towers, 1 | 15 |
| Where, at moonshine’s midnight hours, | |
| O’er the dewy-bending flowers, | |
| Fairies dance sae cheery. | |
| Ca’ the yowes, &c. | |
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| Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear, | 20 |
| Thou’rt to Love and Heav’n sae dear, | |
| Nocht of ill may come thee near; | |
| My bonie Dearie. | |
| Ca’ the yowes, &c. | |
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| Fair and lovely as thou art, | 25 |
| Thou hast stown my very heart; | |
| I can die—but canna part, | |
| My bonie Dearie. | |
| Ca’ the yowes, &c. | |
| | | Note 1. An old ruin in a sweet situation at the confluence of the Clouden and the Nith.—R. B. [back] |
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