The Scottish ballads - National Library of Scotland

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" The lintie is a bonnie bird,
And aften flies far frae its nest
Sae a' the world may plainly see,
They're far awa tihat I love best.
PART FOURTH.
As she was sitting at her bouir window,
Looking afar ower hill and glen,
Wha did she see but fourscore soldiers,
That cam to tak her back again.
Out bespak the foremost man
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And whaten a weel-spoken man was he I
" If the Lady Douglas be within,
Ye'U bid her come doun and speak to me."
But out bespak her father then
I wat an angry man was he I
" Ye may gang back the gate ye cam,
For her face again ye'll never see."
" Now baud your tongue, my father," she says,
And of your folly let me be ;
For I'll gae back to my gude lord,
Since his love has come back to me."
Sae she has dressed hersell fu' braw,
And mounted on her dapple grey.
And, like a queen, wi' her men behind.
She has ridden gayly out the way.
She laughed like ony new-made bride.
When she took fareweel o' her father's towers
But the tear, I wat, stude in her ee.
When she cam in sicht o' her lover's bowers.
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