LADY ANNE LINDSAY

My father couldna work, and my mother couldna spin ; I toiPd day and night, but their bread I couldna win ; Auld Rob maintain'd them baith, and wi* tears in his e'e Said, * Jennie, for their sakes, O, marry me ! '

My heart it said nay; I look'd for Jamie back;

But the wind it blew high, and the ship it was a wrack ;

His ship it was a wrack Why didna Jamie dee?

Or why do I live to cry, Wae 's me !

My father urged me sair : my mother didna speak ; But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break : They gi'ed him my hand, tho' my heart was in the sea ; Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me.

I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When mournfu' as I sat on the stane at the door, I saw my Jamie's wraith, for I couldna think it he, Till he said, ' I'm come hame to marry thee.'

sair, sair did we greet, and muckle did we say; We took but ae kiss, and we tore ourselves away :

1 wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee; And why was I born to say, Wae 's me !

I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.

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