Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Coquet Water | | Coquet Water | | Andrew Scott (1757–1839) |
| | | WHAN winter winds forget to blaw, | |
| An’ vernal suns revive pale nature, | |
| A shepherd lad by chance I saw, | |
| Feeding his flocks by Coquet Water. | |
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| Saft, saft he sung, in melting lays, | 5 |
| His Mary’s charms an’ matchless feature, | |
| While echoes answered frae the braes | |
| That skirt the banks of Coquet Water. | |
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| “O, were that bonnie lassie mine,” | |
| Quoth he, “in love’s saft wiles I ’d daut her; | 10 |
| An’ deem mysel’ as happy syne, | |
| As landit laird on Coquet Water. | |
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| “Let wealthy rakes for pleasure roam, | |
| In foreign lands their fortune fritter;- | |
| But love’s pure joys be mine at home, | 15 |
| Wi’ my dear lass on Coquet Water. | |
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| “Gi’e fine folks wealth, yet what care I, | |
| Gi’e me her smiles whom I lo’e better; | |
| Blest wi’ her love an’ life’s calm joy, | |
| Tending my flocks by Coquet Water. | 20 |
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| “Flow fair an’ clear, thou bonnie stream, | |
| For on thy banks aft hae I met her; | |
| Fair may the bonnie wild-flowers gleam, | |
| That busk the banks of Coquet Water. | | | | |
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