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In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonnie lassies bleach their claes; Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi' hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd's lays At close o' day.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

In summer, when the shaws be sheen And leaves be large and long, It is full merry in fair forest To hear the fowlës song, 97 2.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

The braes ascend, like lofty wa’s, The foamy stream deep-roaring fa’s, O’erhung wi’ fragrant spreading shaws, 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

Strip the belly off ’e, an’, bone for bone, a lean man like me shaws as fair as you.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

Down o'er her cheeks her hair she draws In golden rays 'twixt lily tips, And gazes sad on gloomy shaws 'Neath which had often touched their lips.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.