Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan (Penguin Classics) by Jarvie Gordon

Author:Jarvie, Gordon [Jarvie, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg,

A better never lifted leg,

Tam skelpit on thro’ dub and mire,

Despising wind, and rain, and fire;

Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet;

Whiles crooning o’er some auld Scots sonnet;

Whiles glow’ring round wi’ prudent cares

Lest bogles catch him unawares:

Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh

Where ghaists and houlets nightly cry.

By this time he was ’cross the ford,

Where in the snaw the chapman

smoor’d;

And past the birks and meikle stane

Where drunken Charlie brak’s neck-bane;

And thro’ the whins, and by the cairn

Where hunters fand the murder’d bairn;

And near the thorn abune the well

Where Mungo’s mither hanged hersel.

Before him Doon pours all his floods,

The doubling storm roars thro’ the woods;

The lightnings flash frae pole to pole;

Near and more near the thunders roll:

When, glimmering thro’ the groaning trees,

Kirk-Alloway seem’d in a bleeze

Thro’ ilka bore the beams were glancing,

And loud resounded mirth and dancing.

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