StoryTitle("caps", "The Twa Corbies") ?>
Scottish Version
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As I was walking all alane ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard twa corbies making a mane: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tane unto the tither did say, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Whar sall we gang and dine the day?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"—In behint yon auld fail dyke ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wot there lies a new-slain knight; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And naebody kens that he lies there ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"His hound is to the hunting gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His lady's ta'en anither mate, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So we may mak our dinner sweet. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mony a one for him maks mane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But nane sall ken whar he is gane: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er his white banes, when they are bare, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind sall blaw for evermair.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>