The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham, Volume 2 Papyras Classics

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Chapter 336

CCLXIII. Peg-a-Ramsey

Tune—“Cauld is the e’enin blast.”

[Most of this song is old: Burns gave it a brushing for the Museum.]

I.

Cauld is the e’enin’ blast
O’ Boreas o’er the pool,
And dawin’ it is dreary
When birks are bare at Yule.

II.

O bitter blaws the e’enin’ blast
When bitter bites the frost,
And in the mirk and dreary drift
The hills and glens are lost.

III.

Ne’er sae murky blew the night
That drifted o’er the hill,
But a bonnie Peg-a-Ramsey
Gat grist to her mill.