Poems and Songs of R Of A The Airts The Wind Can Blaw

of a' the airts the wind can blaw 注释标题 written during a separation from mrs. burns in their honeymoon. burns was preparing a home at ellisland; mrs. burns was at mossgiel.—lang.

tune—“miss admiral gordon's strathspey.”

of a' the airts the wind can blaw,

i dearly like the west,

for there the bonie lassie lives,

the lassie i lo'e best:

there's wild-woods grow, and rivers row,

and mony a hill between:

but day and night my fancys' flight

is ever wi' my jean.

i see her in the dewy flowers,

i see her sweet and fair:

i hear her in the tunefu' birds,

i hear her charm the air:

there's not a bonie flower that springs,

by fountain, shaw, or green;

there's not a bonie bird that sings,

but minds me o' my jean.