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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Bessie Bell and Mary Gray

Anonymous

O BESSIE BELL and Mary Gray,

They war twa bonnie lasses!

They bigget a bower on yon burn-brae,

And theekit it o’er wi’ rashes.

They theekit it o’er wi’ rashes green,

They theekit it o’er wi’ heather;

But the pest cam frae the burrows-town,

And slew them baith thegither.

They thought to lie in Methven kirk-yard

Amang their noble kin;

But they maun lye in Stronach haugh,

To biek forenent the sin.

And Bessie Bell and Mary Gray,

They war twa bonnie lasses;

They biggit a bower on yon burn-brae,

And theekit it o’er wi’ rashes.