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Lang maun she weep, lang maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen, Pouing the birks on the Braes o' Yarrow.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
I gat her where I daurna weel be seen, Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
Weep not, weep not, my bonny bonny bride, Weep not, weep not, my winsome marrow; Nor let thy heart lament to leive Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
And why yon melancholious weeds, Hung on the bonny birks o' Yarrow?
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
The little birdies blithely sing, While o’er their heads the hazels hing, Or lightly flit on wanton wing In the birks of Aberfeldy.
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