Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Strathairly | | Coming Hame | | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | THE LIFT is high and blue, | |
| And the new moon glints through | |
| The bonnie corn-stooks o’ Strathairly; | |
| My ship ’s in Largo Bay, | |
| And I ken it weel,—the way | 5 |
| Up the steep, steep brae of Strathairly. | |
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| When I sailed ower the sea,— | |
| A laddie bold and free,— | |
| The corn sprang green on Strathairly; | |
| When I come back again, | 10 |
| ’T is an auld man walks his lane, | |
| Slow and sad through the fields o’ Strathairly. | |
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| Of the shearers that I see, | |
| Ne’er a body kens me, | |
| Though I kent them a’ at Strathairly; | 15 |
| And this fisher-wife I pass, | |
| Can she be the braw lass | |
| That I kissed at the back of Strathairly? | |
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| O, the land ’s fine, fine! | |
| I could buy it a’ for mine, | 20 |
| My gowd ’s yellow as the stooks o’ Strathairly; | |
| But I fain yon lad wad be, | |
| That sailed ower the salt sea, | |
| As the dawn rose gray on Strathairly. | | | | |
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