Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Inverness | | The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | THE LOVELY lass o’ Inverness, | |
| Nae joy nor pleasure can she see; | |
| For e’en and morn she cries, “Alas!” | |
| And aye the saut tear blin’s her e’e. | |
| “Drumossie Moor,—Drumossie-day,— | 5 |
| A waefu’ day it was to me! | |
| For there I lost my father dear, | |
| My father dear, and brethren three. | |
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| “Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, | |
| Their graves are growing green to see, | 10 |
| And by them lies the dearest lad | |
| That ever blest a woman’s e’e! | |
| Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, | |
| A bluidy man I trow thou be! | |
| For monie a heart thou hast made sair, | 15 |
| That ne’er did wrong to thine or thee.” | | | | |
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