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WHEN WILD WAR'D DEADLY BLAST(
Robert Burns)
When wild war's deadly blast was blawn,
And gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless
And mony a widow mourning. I left the lines and tented field Where lang I'd been a lodger My humble knapsack all my wealth A poor but honest sodger.
At length I reached the bonnie glen
Where early life I sported;I pass'd the mill and trysting thorn
Where Nancy oft I courted. Wha spied I but my ain dear maid Down by her mother's dwelling, And turn'd me round to hide the flood That in my e'e was swelling.
She gazed, she redden'd like a rose
Syne pale as any lily,
She sank within my arms and cried,"
Art thou my ain dear Willie?" "
By Him that made you sun and sky By whom true love's regarded I am the man! And thus may still True lovers be rewarded.""
The wars are owre, an' I've come hame
And find the still true-hearted;
Tho' poor in gear, we're rich in love
And mair we'se ne'er be parted." Quoth she, "
My grand-sire left me gowd A mailin plenished fairly Then come, my faithful sodger lad Thou'rt welcome to it dearly."filename
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