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SONGS: 9 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: THERE WERE THREE KINGS CAME FRAE THE EAST
Last Line: THE KINGS BEGOUD THEIR SINGIN'.
Subject(s): SCOTTISH TRANSLATIONS;

THERE were three kings cam frae the East;
They spiered in ilka clachan:
"O, which is the wey to Bethlehem,
My bairns, sae bonnily lachin'?"

O neither young nor auld could tell;
They trailed till their feet were weary.
They followed a bonny gowden starn,
That shone in the lift sae cheery.

The starn stude ower the ale-hoose byre
Whaur the stable gear was hingin'.
The owsen mooed, the bairnie grat,
The kings begoud their singin'.



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