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SCHULE LADDIE'S LAMENT ON THE LATENESS O' THE SEASON, by             Poem Explanation        
First Line: The east wind's whistling cauld ab' shrill
Last Line: The farmers may be bad, nae doot - %it pits hiz laddies sair aboot
Alternate Author Name(s): Haliburton, Hugh


The east wind's whistlin' cauld an' shrill,
The snaw lies on the Lomont Hill;
It's simmer i' the almanack,
But when 'ill simmer days be back?
There's no' a bud on tree or buss;
The craws are at a sair nonplus,-
Hoo can they big? hoo can they pair?
Wi' them sae cauld, and wuds sae bare.
My faither canna saw his seed,-
The hauf o' th' laund's to ploo, indeed;
The lambs are deein', an' the yowes
Are trauchled wanderin' owre the knowes.
There's no' a swallow back as yet,
The robin doesna seek to flit;
There's no' a buckie, nor a bud,
On ony brae, in ony wud.
It's no' a time for barefit feet
When it may be on-ding o' sleet.
The season's broken a' oor rules,-
It's no' the time o' year o' bools;
It's no' the time o' year o' peeries.
I think the year's gane tapsalteeries!
The farmers may be bad, nae doot-
It pits hiz laddies sair aboot.




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