StoryTitle("caps", "Werena My Heart's Licht I Wad Dee") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There ance was a may, and she lo'ed na men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She biggit her bonnie bow'r doun in yon glen; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now she cries, Dool and a well-a-day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come doun the green gait and come here away! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When bonnie young Johnnie cam owre the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said he saw naething sae lovely as me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hecht me baith rings and mony braw things— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had a wee titty that lo'ed na me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because I was twice as bonnie as she; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She raised sic a pother 'twixt him and his mother ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That werena my heart's licht, I wad dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The day it was set, and the bridal to be: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wife took a dwam and lay doun to dee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She maned and she graned out o' dolour and pain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till he vow'd he never wad see me again. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His kin was for ane of a higher degree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said—What had he do wi' the likes of me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Appose I was bonnie, I wasna for Johnnie— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They said I had neither cow nor calf, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor dribbles o' drink rins thro' the draff, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor pickles o' meal rins thro' the mill-e'e— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His titty she was baith wylie and slee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She spied me as I cam owre the lea; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then she ran in and made a loud din— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Believe your ain e'en, an ye trow not me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His bonnet stood ay fu' round on his brow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His auld ane look'd ay as well as some's new: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now he lets 't wear ony gait it will hing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And casts himsel dowie upon the corn bing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now he gaes daund'ring about the dykes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a' he dow do is to hund the tykes: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The live-lang nicht he ne'er steeks his e'e— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were I but young for thee, as I hae been, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We should hae been gallopin' doun in yon green, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And linkin' it owre the lily-white lea— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wow, gin I were but young for thee!", "") ?>
Poet("Lady Grisel Baillie", "1665–1746") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>