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...IT was upon a Lammas night,
 When corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
 I held awa to Annie;
The time flew by, wi’ tentless heed,
 Till, ’tween the late and early,
Wi’ sma’ persuasion she agreed
 To see me thro’ the barley.


Corn rigs, an’ barley rigs,
 An’ corn rigs are bonie:
I’ll ne’er forget that happy night,
 Amang the rigs wi’ Annie.


The sky was blue, the wind was sti...Read more of this...

...lk maun hae their will;
Syne as ye brew, my maiden fair,
 Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill.”


“O gear will buy me rigs o’ land,
 And gear will buy me sheep and kye;
But the tender heart o’ leesome love,
 The gowd and siller canna buy;
We may be poor—Robie and I—
 Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy—
 What mair hae Queens upon a throne?”...Read more of this...

...To honest-hearted, auld Lapraik,
 For his kind letter.


Forjesket sair, with weary legs,
Rattlin the corn out-owre the rigs,
Or dealing thro’ amang the naigs
 Their ten-hours’ bite,
My awkart Muse sair pleads and begs
 I would na write.


The tapetless, ramfeezl’d hizzie,
She’s saft at best an’ something lazy:
Quo’ she, “Ye ken we’ve been sae busy
 This month an’ mair,
That trowth, my head is grown right dizzie,
 An’ something sair.”


Her dowff excuses pat me mad;
“Conscien...Read more of this...

...fu’ cannie
 The staff o’ bread,
May ye ne’er want a stoup o’ bran’y
 To clear your head.


May Boreas never thresh your rigs,
Nor kick your rickles aff their legs,
Sendin the stuff o’er muirs an’ haggs
 Like drivin wrack;
But may the tapmost grain that wags
 Come to the sack.


I’m bizzie, too, an’ skelpin at it,
But bitter, daudin showers hae wat it;
Sae my auld stumpie pen I gat it
 Wi’ muckle wark,
An’ took my jocteleg an whatt it,
 Like ony clark.


It’s now twa month tha...Read more of this...

...toiling leaders gain 
The body-bullocks hold. 


Where eagle-hawks their eyries make, 
On sidlings steep and blind, 
He rigs the good old-fashioned brake--- 
A tree tied on behind. 
Up mountains, straining to the full, 
Each poler plays his part--- 
The sullen, stubborn, bullock-pull 
That breaks a horse's heart. 


Beyond the farthest bridle track 
His wheels have blazed the way; 
The forest giants, burnt and black, 
Are ear-marked by his dray. 
Through belts of scrub, where...Read more of this...

...ar it start, off the road past our place,
over on the highway nearby,
in a clatter of market-bound traffic.

Riding the rigs packed with fruit and crated live fowl,
or on foot, with cattle hitched to tailgates slowing the pace,
or sitting up high, on raised seats
(the women all wore their garish kerchiefs,
the knot under each chin carefully tied)

so jolting along, lurching in their seats,
in and out of woods, fields, scrub barrens,
with dogs out barking from every yard along...Read more of this...

...gh, they're high, and those Turkey figs,
They all come from the South, and Nelson's ships
Make it a little hard for our rigs.
They must be forever giving the slips
To the cursed English, and when men clips
Through powder to bring them, why dainties mounts
A bit in price. Those almonds now,
I'll strip off that husk, when one discounts
A life or two in a ****** row
With the man who grew them, it does seem how
They would come dear; and then the fight
At sea perhaps, our boats ha...Read more of this...

...well,    And gave the piper a penny,And bade him play the other tune,    "Corn rigs are bonny."...Read more of this...

...t digs it out again 
Without the slightest trouble. 

The boundary rider bows to fate, 
Admits he's made a blunder 
And rigs a little swinging gate 
To let Bill Wombat under. 

So most contentedly he goes 
Between his haunt and burrow: 
He does the only thing he knows, 
And does it very thorough....Read more of this...

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