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Henceforth I’ll rove where busy ploughs Are whistling thrang, An’ teach the lanely heights an’ howes My rustic sang.
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
Now say no more stories of feasting, Though seven in a day thou couldst tell of, Or bumps thou shalt comb on thy brainpan, Thou that breakest the howes of the dead.
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
And I'm aye thinkin' o' the waters I've been to, and the green heichs and howes and the linns that I canna win to again.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
Upon the bonny greensward howes, Wi' thee, my kind dearie, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Mr Hammerton prints howes instead of homes, which I have italicised above.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
