507. Song-Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

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

507. Song—Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay


CAULD is the e’enin blast,
O’ Boreas o’er the pool,
An’ dawin’ it is dreary,
When birks are bare at Yule.

Cauld blaws the e’enin blast,	5
When bitter bites the frost,
And, in the mirk and dreary drift,
The hills and glens are lost:

Ne’er sae murky blew the night
That drifted o’er the hill,	10
But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
Gat grist to her mill.