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Simmer’s a pleasant time, Flowers o’ every color;  The winter rins ower the heugh, And I long for my true lover.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

Simmer's a pleasant time, Flow'rs of ev'ry colour; The water rins o'er the heugh, crag And I long for my true lover.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

I. Simmer’s a pleasant time, Flow’rs of ev’ry colour; The water rins o’er the heugh, And I long for my true lover.

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

"Gang awa, ane o' ye, hinnies, up to the heugh head, and gie them a cry in case they're within hearing; the car-cakes will be burnt to a cinder."

From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The little emissary departed, but in a few minutes came running back with the loud exclamation, "Eh, Minnie! eh, grannie! there's a white bogle chasing twa black anes down the heugh."

From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir