barefoot
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In Galloway, the hen's song is: The cock gaed to Rome, seeking shoon, seeking shoon, The cock gaed to Rome, seeking shoon, And yet I aye gang barefit, barefit!
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)
As I was walking up the street, A barefit maid I chanc'd to meet; But O the road was very hard For that fair maiden's tender feet.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I'll sing the zeal Drumlanrig bears, Who left the all-important cares Of princes, and their darlings: And, bent on winning borough touns, Came shaking hands wi' wabster-loons, And kissing barefit carlins.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
The lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang, In silks an’ scarlets glitter; Wi’ sweet-milk cheese, in monie a whang, An’ farls bak’d wi’ butter, Fu’ crump that day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Trout in the burn grow great as herr'n, The simple sheep can find their fair'n'; The wind blaws clean about the cairn Wi' caller air; The muircock an' the barefit bairn Are happy there.
From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis
