Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | The Ingle-Side | | Hew Ainslie (1792–1878) |
| | | IT ’S rare to see the morning bleeze | |
| Like a bonfire frae the sea, | |
| It ’s fair to see the burnie kiss | |
| The lip o’ the flow’ry lea; | |
| An’ fine it is on green hillside, | 5 |
| Where hums the bonnie bee, | |
| But rarer, fairer, finer far | |
| Is the Ingle-side for me. | |
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| Glens may be gilt wi’ gowans rare, | |
| The birds may fill the tree; | 10 |
| And haughs hae a’ the scented ware | |
| That simmer-growth can gie: | |
| But the canty hearth where cronies meet, | |
| An’ the darling o’ our e’e, | |
| That makes to us a warl’ complete: | 15 |
| O, the Ingle-side for me! | | | | |
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