StoryTitle("caps", "Edom o' Gordon") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It fell about the Martinmas, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When the wind blew shrill and cauld, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said Edom o' Gordon to his men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"We maun draw to a hauld. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And what a hauld sall we draw to, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My merry men and me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will gae to the house o' the Rodes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see that fair ladye.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lady stood on her castle wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Beheld baith dale and down;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There she was ware of a host of men ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cam riding towards the town. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O see ye not, my merry men a', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O see ye not what I see? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Methinks I see a host of men;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I marvel wha they be.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She ween'd it had been her lovely lord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he cam riding hame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was the traitor, Edom o' Gordon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wha reck'd nae sin nor shame. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She had nae sooner buskit hersell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And putten on her gown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Edom o' Gordon an' his men ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were round about the town. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They had nae sooner supper set,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nae sooner said the grace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Edom o' Gordon an' his men ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Were lighted about the place. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lady ran up to her tower-head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae fast as she could hie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see if by her fair speeches ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She could wi' him agree. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Come doun to me, ye lady gay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come doun, come doun to me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This night sall ye lig within mine arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To-morrow my bride sall be.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I winna come down, ye fals Gordon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I winna come down to thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I winna forsake my ain dear lord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That is sae far frae me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gie owre your house, ye lady fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gie owre your house to me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or I sall brenn yoursel therein, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But and your babies three.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I winna gie owre, ye fals Gordon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To nae sic traitor as yee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if ye brenn my ain dear babes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My lord sall mak ye dree. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now reach my pistol, Glaud, my man, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And charge ye weel my gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For, but an I pierce that bluidy butcher, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My babes, we been undone!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She stood upon her castle wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let twa bullets flee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She miss'd that bluidy butcher's heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And only razed his knee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Set fire to the house!\" quo' fals Gordon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All wud wi' dule and ire: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Fals lady, ye sall rue this deid ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As ye brenn in the fire!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Wae worth, wae worth ye, Jock, my man! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I paid ye weel your fee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why pu' ye out the grund-wa' stane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lets in the reek to me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And e'en wae worth ye, Jock, my man!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I paid ye weel your hire; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why pu' ye out the grund-wa' stane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To me lets in the fire?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye paid me weel my hire, ladye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ye paid me weel my fee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now I'm Edom o' Gordon's man— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Maun either do or die.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O then bespake her little son, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sat on the nurse's knee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Says, \"Mither dear, gie owre this house,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the reek it smithers me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I wad gie a' my gowd, my bairn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae wad I a' my fee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For ae blast o' the western wind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To blaw the reek frae thee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O then bespake her dochter dear— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She was baith jimp and sma': ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O row me in a pair o' sheets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tow me owre the wa'!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They row'd her in a pair o' sheets,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tow'd her owre the wa'; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But on the point o' Gordon's spear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She gat a deadly fa'. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O bonnie, bonnie was her mouth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And cherry were her cheiks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And clear, clear was her yellow hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereon the red blood dreips. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then wi' his spear he turn'd her owre; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O gin her face was wane! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said, \"Ye are the first that e'er", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish'd alive again.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He turn'd her owre and owre again; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O gin her skin was white! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I might hae spared that bonnie face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To hae been some man's delight. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Busk and boun, my merry men a', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For ill dooms I do guess; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I canna look in that bonnie face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As it lies on the grass.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Wha looks to freits, my master dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's freits will follow them; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let it ne'er be said that Edom o' Gordon ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was daunted by a dame.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "But when the lady saw the fire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come flaming owre her head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She wept, and kiss'd her children twain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Says, \"Bairns, we been but dead.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gordon then his bugle blew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And said, \"Awa', awa'! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This house o' the Rodes is a' in a flame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I hauld it time to ga'.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this way lookit her ain dear lord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he cam owre the lea; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He saw his castle a' in a lowe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As far as he could see. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sair, O sair, his mind misgave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all his heart was wae: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Put on, put on, my wighty men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae fast as ye can gae. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Put on, put on, my wighty men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae fast as ye can drie! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he that's hindmost o' the thrang ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sall ne'er get good o' me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then some they rade, and some they ran, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out-owre the grass and bent; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ere the foremost could win up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Baith lady and babes were brent. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after the Gordon he is gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae fast as he might drie; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soon i' the Gordon's foul heart's blude ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He's wroken his dear ladye.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>