And left me in extremitie.
"I sewed his sheet, making my mane;
I watch'd the corpse, myself alane;
I watch'd his body, night and day;
No living creature came that way.
"I took his body on my back,
And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat;
I digged a grave, and laid him in,
And happ'd him with the sod sae green.
"But think na ye my heart was sair,