As soun’s a tap.

An’ whan the dawn began to glow,

I hirsled up my dizzy pow,

Frae ’mang the corn like worry-kow,

Wi’ banes fu’ sair,

An’ kend nae mair than if a yow,

How I came there.

Some said it was the pith o’ broom,

That she stow’d in her masking loom,

Which in our heads rais’d sic a foom,