O Lord! he weeped tenderly.

31.

Unto a shepherd’s house that child did go,

And said, ‘Sir, God you save and see!

Do you not want a servant boy

To tend your sheep on a lonely lea?’

32.

‘Where was thou born?’ the shepherd said,

‘Where, my boy, or in what country?’

‘Sir,’ he said, ‘I was born in fair Scotland