Alas! that e’er my loom I lent

That day to thee.

Wae to the night I first began

To mix my moggans wi’ thee man:

’Tis needless now to curse or ban,

But deil hae me,

Ye’ll pay an’ sit, for sit ye can,

An’ that ye’ll see.

I heard her as I heard her not,

But time and place had quite forgot,