DUNCAN GRAY cam' here to woo -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! On blythe Yule night when we were fou -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Duncan fleeched and duncan prayed -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Meg was deaf as Ailsa craig -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Duncan sighed baith out and in, Grat his een baith bleer't and blin', Spak o' lowpin' o'er a linn -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Time and chance are but a tide -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Slighted love is sair to bide -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Shall I, like a fool, quoth he, For a haughty hizzie dee? She may gae to -- France, for me! Ha, ha! the wooing o't! How it comes let doctors tell -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Meg grew sick as he grew heal -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Something in her bosom wrings, -- For relief a sigh she brings; And O, her een they speak sic things! Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Duncan was a lad o' grace -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Maggie's was a piteous case -- Ha, ha! the wooing o't! Duncan could na be her death: Swelling pity smoored his wrath. Now they're crouse and canty baith, Ha, ha! the wooing o't! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO NATURE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ODE TO EVENING by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) SEVEN TIMES FOUR [ - MATERNITY] by JEAN INGELOW THE LOVE-SICK FROG by MOTHER GOOSE SONNET: 73 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A PETITION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ESSAY TOWARDS A CHARACTER OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY KING JAMES II by PHILIP AYRES |