首页
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
the soldier's return air—“the mill, mill, o.” when wild war's deadly blast was blawn, and gentle peace returning, wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, and mony a widow mourning; i left the lines and tented field, where lang i'd been a lodger, my humble knapsack a' my wealth, a poor and honest sodger. a leal, light heart was in my breast, my hand unstain'd wi' plunder; and for fair scotia hame again, i cheery on did wander: i thought upon the banks o' coil, i thought upon my nancy, i thought upon the witching smile that caught my youthful fancy. at length i reach'd the bonie glen, where early life i sported; i pass'd the mill and trysting thorn, where nancy aft i courted: wha spied i but my ain dear maid, down by her mother's dwelling! and turn'd me round to hide the flood that in my een was swelling. wi' alter'd voice, h i, “sweet lass, sweet as yon hawthorn's blossom, o! happy, happy may he be, that's dearest to thy bosom: my purse is light, i've far to gang, and fain would be thy lodger; i've serv'd my king and country lang— take pity M.HZgjjX.COm