StoryTitle("caps", "The Dowie Houms of Yarrow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Late at een, drinkin' the wine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And ere they paid the lawin', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They set a combat them between, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To fight it in the dawin'. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O stay at hame, my noble lord! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O stay at hame, my marrow! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My cruel brother will you betray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O fare ye weel, my lady gay! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O fare ye weel, my Sarah!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I maun gae, tho' I ne'er return ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Frae the dowie banks o' Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She kiss'd his cheek, she kamed his hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As she had done before, O; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She belted on his noble brand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' he's awa to Yarrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O he's gane up yon high, high hill— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wat he gaed wi' sorrow— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' in a den spied nine arm'd men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I' the dowie houms o' Yarrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O are ye come to drink the wine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As ye hae doon before, O? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or are ye come to wield the brand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie banks o' Yarrow?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I am no come to drink the wine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As I hae don before, O, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I am come to wield the brand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four he hurt, an' five he slew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie houms o' Yarrow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till that stubborn knight came him behind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' ran his body thorrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gae hame, gae hame, good brother John, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' tell your sister Sarah ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To come an' lift her noble lord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who's sleepin' sound on Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Yestreen I dream'd a dolefu' dream; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I ken'd there wad be sorrow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I dream'd I pu'd the heather green, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She gaed up yon high, high hill— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wat she gaed wi' sorrow— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' in a den spied nine dead men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie houms o' Yarrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She kiss'd his cheek, she kamed his hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As oft she did before, O; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She drank the red blood frae him ran, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the dowie houms o' Yarrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O haud your tongue, my douchter dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For what needs a' this sorrow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll wed you on a better lord ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than him you lost on Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O haud your tongue, my father dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' dinna grieve your Sarah; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A better lord was never born", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than him I lost on Yarrow.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Tak hame your ousen, tak hame your kye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For they hae bred our sorrow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wiss that they had a' gane mad ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When they cam first to Yarrow.\"", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "c. 1600") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>