‘O wha has done the wrang, sister,

Or dared the deadly sin?

Wha was sae stout, and feared nae dout,

As thraw ye o’er the linn?’

18.

‘Young Benjie was the first ae man,

I laid my love upon;

He was sae stout and proud-hearted,

He threw me o’er the linn.’

19.