| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | ‘Bonnie Ran the Burnie Doon’ | | By Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
| | | BONNIE ran the burnie doon, | |
| Wand’rin’ and windin’; | |
| Sweetly sang the birds abune, | |
| Care never mindin’. | |
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| The gentle simmer wind | 5 |
| Was their nursie saft and kind, | |
| And it rockit them, and rockit them, | |
All in their bowers sae hie.
Bonnie ran, etc. | |
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| The mossy rock was there, | |
| And the water-lily fair, | 10 |
| And the little trout would sport about | |
All in the sunny beam.
Bonnie ran, etc. | |
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| Though simmer days be lang, | |
| And sweet the birdies’ sang, | |
| The wintry night and chilling blight | 15 |
Keep aye their eerie roun’.
Bonnie ran, etc. | |
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| And then the burnie’s like a sea, | |
| Roarin’ and reamin’; | |
| Nae wee bit sangster’s on the tree, | |
But wild birds screamin’.
Bonnie ran, etc. | 20 |
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| O that the past I might forget, | |
| Wand’rin’ and weepin’! | |
| O that aneath the hillock green | |
| Sound I were sleepin’! | |
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| Bonnie ran the burnie doon, | 25 |
| Wand’rin’ and windin’; | |
| Sweetly sang the birds abune, | |
| Care never mindin’. | | | | |
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