Ilka lip so bright o’ blee

Keeps in guard a kiss to gie

To the lad that dares!”

II.
WONDERFU’ SLEE.

O Jamie MacPherson! Ye’re sic a slee person!

I kenned ye for keen ever sin’ we were wee;

Ye hae stown my ain mither, hae stown my ain brither,

Hae stown my ain sister awa’ frae me!

At kirk door they see’d ye—sic follies, I rede ye,