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The brigs ride out past Ferryden
Ahint the girnin’ tugs,
And the lasses wave to the Baltic men
Wi’ the gowd rings i’ their lugs.
My mither’s sweir to let me gang,
My feyther gies me blame ;
But youth is sair and life is lang
When yer he’rt’s sae far frae hame.
But i’ the doo’cot up the braes,
When a’tumn nichts are mirk,
I’ve hid my pennies an’ my claes
An’ the Buik I read at kirk,
An’ come ae nicht when a’ fowks sleep,
I’ll lift them whaur they lie,
An’ to the harbour-side I’ll creep
I’ the dim licht o’ the sky ;
An’ when the eastern blink * grows wide,
An’ dark still smoors f the west,
A Baltic brig will tak the tide
Wi’ a lad that canna rest !
* beam t smothers
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Ahint the girnin’ tugs,
And the lasses wave to the Baltic men
Wi’ the gowd rings i’ their lugs.
My mither’s sweir to let me gang,
My feyther gies me blame ;
But youth is sair and life is lang
When yer he’rt’s sae far frae hame.
But i’ the doo’cot up the braes,
When a’tumn nichts are mirk,
I’ve hid my pennies an’ my claes
An’ the Buik I read at kirk,
An’ come ae nicht when a’ fowks sleep,
I’ll lift them whaur they lie,
An’ to the harbour-side I’ll creep
I’ the dim licht o’ the sky ;
An’ when the eastern blink * grows wide,
An’ dark still smoors f the west,
A Baltic brig will tak the tide
Wi’ a lad that canna rest !
* beam t smothers
14
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Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Scottish poems of Violet Jacob > (18) |
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Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129133993 |
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Shelfmark | X.171.h |
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Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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