Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Logan Water (Glencorse Burn) | | Habbie’s How | | Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
| | (From The Gentle Shepherd)
GAE farer up the burn to Habbie’s How, | |
| Where a’ the sweets of spring and summer grow; | |
| Between twa birks, out o’er a little linn, | |
| The water fa’s, and maks a singand din: | |
| A pool breast-deep, beneath as clear as glass, | 5 |
| Kisses with easy whirles the bordering grass. | |
| We ’ll end our washing while the morning ’s cool; | |
| And when the day grows het, we ’ll to the pool, | |
| There wash oursells; ’t is healthfu’ now in May, | |
| And sweetly cauler on sae warm a day. | 10 | | | |
|
|
