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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. V. Rothesay Bay

Dinah Maria Craik (1826–1887)

FU’ yellow lie the corn-rigs

Far doun the braid hillside;

It is the brawest harst-field

Alang the shores o’ Clyde,—

And I’m a puir harst-lassie

Wha stands the lee-lang day

Shearing the corn-rigs of Ardbeg

Aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

O I had ance a true-love,—

Now, I hae nane ava;

And I had three braw brithers,

But I hae tint them a’;

My father and my mither

Sleep i’ the mools this day,

I sit my lane amang the rigs

Aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

It’s a bonnie bay at morning,

And bonnier at the noon,

But it’s bonniest when the sun draps

And red comes up the moon:

When the mist creeps o’er the Cumbrays

And Arran peaks are gray,

And the great black hills, like sleepin’ kings,

Sit grand roun’ Rothesay Bay,

Then a bit sigh stirs my bosom,

And a saut tear blin’s my e’e,—

And I think o’ that far Countrie

Whar I wad like to be!

But I rise content i’ the morning

To wark while wark I may,

I’ the yellow harst-field of Ardbeg

Aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.