63. One Night as I did Wander. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

63. One Night as I did Wander

Tune—“John Anderson, my jo.”


ONE night as I did wander,
When corn begins to shoot,
I sat me down to ponder
Upon an auld tree root;
Auld Ayr ran by before me,	5
And bicker’d to the seas;
A cushat crooded o’er me,
That echoed through the braes