English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 363. Gloomy Winter’s Now Awa’ |
| | | Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) |
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| GLOOMY winter’s now awa’, | |
| Saft the westlan’ breezes blaw, | |
| ’Mang the birks o’ Stanley-shaw | |
| The mavis sings fu’ cheerie, O! | |
| Sweet the crawflower’s early bell | 5 |
| Decks Gleniffer’s dewy dell, | |
| Blooming like thy bonnie sel’, | |
| My young, my artless dearie, O! | |
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| Come, my lassie, let us stray | |
| O’er Glenkilloch’s sunny brae, | 10 |
| Blithely spend the gowden day | |
| ’Midst joys that never weary, O! | |
| Towering o’er the Newton wuds, | |
| Laverocks 1 fan the snaw-white cluds, | |
| Siller saughs, 2 wi’ downy buds, | 15 |
| Adorn the banks sae briery, O! | |
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| Round the sylvan fairy nooks | |
| Feath’ry breckans 3 fringe the rocks, | |
| ’Neath the brae the burnie jouks, 4 | |
| And ilka 5 thing is cheerie, O! | 20 |
| Trees may bud, and birds may sing, | |
| Flowers may bloom, and verdure spring, | |
| Joy to me they canna bring, | |
| Unless wi’ thee, my dearie, O! | |
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