The Lammy

What said ye to the bonny bairn. My boy Tammy? I praised her een sae bonny blue. Her dimpled cheek and bonnie mou, I prie'd it aft, as ye may trow—— She said she'd tell her mammy.

I held her to my beating heart: My young but smiling lammie! I hae a house it cost me dear, I've wealth o' plenishing and gear: Ye'se get it a' war't ten times mair, Gin ye will leave your mammy.