StoryTitle("caps", "The Lass of Lochroyan") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wha will shoe my bonny foot?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wha will glove my hand?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wha will bind my middle jimp", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a lang, lang linen band?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wha will kame my yellow hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a haw bayberry kame?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wha will be my babe's father", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till Gregory come hame?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"They father, he will shoe thy foot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy brother will glove thy hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy mither will bind thy middle jimp", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a lang, lang linen band.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Thy sister will kame thy yellow hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a haw bayberry kame;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Almighty will be thy babe's father", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till Gregory come hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And wha will build a bonny ship,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set it on the sea?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I will go to seek my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My ain love Gregory.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up then spak her father dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A wafu' man was he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And I will build a bonny ship,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set her on the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And I will build a bonny ship, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set her on the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ye sal gae and seek your love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your ain love Gregory.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he's gart build a bonny ship,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set it on the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wi' four-and-twenty mariners,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To bear her company.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O he's gart build a bonny ship,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail on the salt sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mast was o' the beaten gold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sails o' cramoisie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sides were o' the gude stout aik,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The deck o' mountain pine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The anchor o' the silver shene,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The ropes o' silken twine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hadna sail'd but twenty leagues,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But twenty leagues and three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she met wi' a rank reiver,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a' his companie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now are ye Queen of Heaven hie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come to pardon a' our sin?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or are ye Mary Magdalane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was born at Bethlam?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I'm no the Queen of Heaven hie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come to pardon ye your sin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor am I Mary Magdalane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was born in Bethlam.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But I'm the lass of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That's sailing on the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see if I can find my love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My ain love Gregory.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O see na ye yon bonny bower?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's a' covered owre wi' tin;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thou hast sail'd it round about,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Gregory is within.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when she saw the stately tower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shining both clear and bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whilk stood aboon the jawing wave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Built on a rock of height,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Says, \"Row the boat, my mariners, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bring me to the land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For yonder I see my love's castle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Close by the salt sea strand.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She sail'd it round, and sail'd it round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And loud and loud cried she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now break, now break your fairy charms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set my true-love free.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She's ta'en her young son in her arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to the door she's gane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And long she knock'd, and sair she ca'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But answer got she nane.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O open, open, Gregory!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O open! if ye be within;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For here's the lass of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come far fra kith and kin. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O open the door, Lord Gregory!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O open and let me in!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind blows loud and cauld, Gregory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rain drops fra my chin.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The shoe is frozen to my foot, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The glove unto my hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wet drops fra my yellow hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Na langer dow I stand.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O up then spak his ill mither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "—An ill death may she die! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye're no the lass of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She's far out-owre the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Awa', awa', ye ill woman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ye're no come here for gude;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye're but some witch or wil' warlock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or mermaid o' the flood.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I am neither witch nor wil' warlock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor mermaid o' the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I am Annie of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O open the door to me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gin ye be Annie of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As I trow thou binna she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now tell me of some love-tokens", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That pass'd 'tween thee and me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O dinna ye mind, love Gregory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As we sat at the wine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We changed the rings frae our fingers?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I can shew thee thine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O yours was gude, and gude enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But ay the best was mine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For yours was o' the gude red gowd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But mine o' the diamond fine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Yours was o' the gude red gowd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Mine o' the diamond fine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mine was o' the purest troth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But thine was false within.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"If ye be the lass of Lochroyan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As I kenna thou be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me some mair o' the love-tokens", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pass'd between thee and me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And dinna ye mind, love Gregory!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As we sat on the hill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou twin'd me o' my maidenheid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Right sair against my will?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now open the door, love Gregory!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Open the door! I pray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For thy young son is in my arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And will be dead ere day.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye lie, ye lie, ye ill woman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So loud I hear ye lie;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Annie of the Lochroyan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is far out-owre the sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Annie turn'd her round about:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Weel, sine that it be sae,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May ne'er woman that has borne a son", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hae a heart sae fu' o' wae!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Tak down, tak down that mast o' gowd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Set up a mast of tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It disna become a forsaken lady", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail sae royallie.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the cock had crawn, and the day did dawn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the sun began to peep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up than raise Lord Gregory,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sair, sair did he weep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O I hae dream'd a dream, mither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish it may bring good!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the bonny lass of Lochroyan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At my bower window stood.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O I hae dream'd a dream, mither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The thought o't gars me greet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That fair Annie of Lochroyan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lay dead at my bed-feet.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gin it be for Annie of Lochroyan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That ye mak a' this mane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She stood last night at your bower-door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I hae sent her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wae betide ye, ill woman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An ill death may ye die!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That wadna open the door yoursell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor yet wad waken me.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O he's gane down to yon shore-side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As fast as he could dree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there he saw fair Annie's bark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A rowing owre the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O Annie, Annie,\" loud he cried,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O Annie, O Annie, bide!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ay the mair he cried \"Annie,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The braider grew the tide.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O Annie, Annie, dear Annie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear Annie, speak to me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But ay the louder he gan call,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The louder roar'd the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind blew loud, the waves rose hie", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And dash'd the boat on shore;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Annie's corpse was in the faem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The babe rose never more.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord Gregory tore his gowden locks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And made a wafu' moan;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Annie's corpse lay at his feet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His bonny son was gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O cherry, cherry was her cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And gowden was her hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And coral, coral was her lips,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nane might with her compare.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then first he kiss'd her pale, pale cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And syne he kiss'd her chin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And syne he kiss'd her wane, wane lips,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There was na breath within.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wae betide my ill mither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An ill death may she die!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She turn'd my true-love frae my door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who cam so far to me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O wae betide my ill mither,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An ill death may she die!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She has no been the deid o' ane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she's been the deid of three.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he's ta'en out a little dart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hung low down by his gore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He thrust it through and through his heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And words spak never more.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "c. 1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>