sonsie

Address to a Haggis, by Robert Burns Original Translation Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain, o’ the puddin’ race!”

When I heard him safely round the 'sherp' turn on the staircase I looked at the sonsie, kindly face of my old nurse.

My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language; but you know the Scottish idiom,—she was a bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass.

Everywhere we go we see fresh, fair-haired, sonsie lassies; why should we have been visited with this affliction, we who have no courage in a foreign land to rid ourselves of it?