“Wash her twa hands frae sin.”

“And O! and O!” said the youngest babe,

“She nursed me on her knee.”

“And O! and O!” said the eldest babe,

“She’s a mither yet to me.”

Anonymous

(2) Good people all, of every sort,

Give ear unto my song;

And if you find it wondrous short,

It cannot hold you long.