Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | III. Love’s Beginnings | | The Plaidie | | Charles Sibley |
| | | UPON ane stormy Sunday, | |
| Coming adoon the lane, | |
| Were a score of bonnie lassies— | |
| And the sweetest I maintain | |
| Was Caddie, | 5 |
| That I took unneath my plaidie, | |
| To shield her from the rain. | |
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| She said that the daisies blushed | |
| For the kiss that I had ta’en; | |
| I wadna hae thought the lassie | 10 |
| Wad sae of a kiss complain: | |
| “Now, laddie! | |
| I winna stay under your plaidie, | |
| If I gang hame in the rain!” | |
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| But, on an after Sunday, | 15 |
| When cloud there was not ane, | |
| This selfsame winsome lassie | |
| (We chanced to meet in the lane) | |
| Said, “Laddie, | |
| Why dinna ye wear your plaidie? | 20 |
| Wha kens but it may rain?” | | | | |
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