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O luely, luely cam she in
And luely she lay doon:
I kent her by her caller lips
And her breists sae sma' and roun'.
A thru the nicht we spak nae word
Nor sinder'd bane frae bane:
A' thru the nicht I heard her hert
Gang soundin' wi' my ain.
It was aboot the waukrife hour
When cocks began to craw
That she smool'd saftly thru the mirk
Afore the day wud daw.
Sae luely, luely cam she in
Saie luely was she gaen;
And wi' her a' my simmer days
Like they had never been.
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― Into a Room: Selected Poems
― Into a Room: Selected Poems
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Now Scots, it must be observed, is not English badly spelled; nor is it a dialect of English. To simplify, but not in a direction away from the truth; the Scots language was a development - and by now is a degeneration - of the Anglian branch of what is called Old English, and was originally spoken from the Forth to the Humber - that's to say, on both sides of the Border. The Saxon branch to the South flourished and became what we call English. With the establishment of the Border, the Anglian b
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― Scottish Eccentrics
― Scottish Eccentrics