Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

Author:George MacDonald [MacDonald, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

But here I must pause. Shall I be breaking my promise of not a word of Scotch in my story, if I give the song? True it is not a part of the story exactly, but it is in it. If my reader would like the song, he must have it in Scotch or not at all. I am not going to spoil it by turning it out of its own natural clothes into finer garments to which it was not born—I mean by translating it from Scotch into English. The best way will be this: I give the song as something extra—call it a footnote slipped into the middle of the page. Nobody needs read a word of it to understand the story; and being in smaller type and a shape of its own, it can be passed over without the least trouble.

SONG

Oh! the bonny, bonny dell, whaur the yorlin[1] sings,

Wi' a clip o' the sunshine atween his wings;

Whaur the birks[2] are a' straikit wi' fair munelicht,

And the broom hings its lamps by day and by nicht;

Whaur the burnie comes trottin' ower shingle and stane,

Liltin'[3] bonny havers[4] til 'tsel alane;

And the sliddery[5] troot, wi' ae soop o' its tail,

Is awa' 'neath the green weed's swingin' veil!

Oh! the bonny, bonny dell, whaur I sang as I saw

The yorlin, the broom, an' the burnie, an' a'!

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