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