StoryTitle("caps", "The Bonnie House o' Airlie") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It fell on a day, and a bonnie simmer day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When green grew aits and barley, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That there fell out a great dispute ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Between Argyll and Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Argyll has raised an hunder men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An hunder harness'd rarely, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he's awa' by the back of Dunkell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To plunder the castle of Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Ogilvie looks o'er her bower-window, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And O but she looks warely!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there she spied the great Argyll, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come to plunder the bonnie house of Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Come down, come down, my Lady Ogilvie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come down and kiss me fairly—\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O I winna kiss the fause Argyll,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If he shouldna leave a standing stane in Airlie.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hath taken her by the left shoulder, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Says, \"Dame, where lies thy dowry?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O it's east and west yon wan water side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it's down by the banks of the Airlie.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hae sought it up, they hae sought it down, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They hae sought it maist severely, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till they fand it in the fair plum-tree ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That shines on the bowling-green of Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hath taken her by the middle sae small,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And O but she grat sairly! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And laid her down by the bonnie burn-side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Til they plunder'd the castle of Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gif my gude lord war here this night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he is with King Charlie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Neither you, nor ony ither Scottish lord, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Durst avow to the plundering of Airlie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gif my gude lord war now at hame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he is with his king, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There durst nae a Campbell in a' Argyll ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Set fit on Airlie green. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ten bonnie sons I have borne unto him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The eleventh ne'er saw his daddy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But though I had an hunder mair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'd gie them a' to King Charlie!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>