Jock Stair's gone away,

Where I cannot fancy.

Jock Stair's gone away,

Gone and left his Nancy.

O, Jock, I cannot say

How much I miss you,

If you were here to-day

Nancy would kiss you.

Her cheeks were roses, her eyes shone with a misty light, and the verse so rapturous to herself that she struck her little hands together when she had finished.

"Do you like it, Jock? Is it pretty?" she asked.