It’s far yet frae my chin.
28.
‘Mend up the fire to me, brother,
Mend up the fire to me;
For I see him comin’ hard an’ fast,
Will soon men’ ’t up to thee.
29.
29.3 ‘gleed,’ burning coal, fire.
‘O gin my hands had been loose, Willy,
Sae hard as they are boun’,