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J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.

By Lady Grisel Baillie (1665–1746)

The Ewe-Buchtin’s Bonnie

THE EWE-BUCHTIN’S bonnie, baith e’enin’ and morn,

When owr blithe shepherds play on the bog-reed and horn;

While we’re milking, they’re lilting, baith pleasant and clear;

But my heart ’s fit to break when I think on my dear.

O the shepherds take pleasure to blow on the horn,

To raise up their flocks o’ sheep soon in the morn;

On the bonnie green banks they feed pleasand and free,

But alas, my dear heart, all my sighing ’s for thee!