And the green grass growing over me!

[73] An exclamation of sorrow, woe! alas!
[74] Hillside.
[75] Brook.
[76] Oak.
[77] Then.
[78] Adorn.
[79] Comb.
[80] At the foot of Arthur's-Seat, a cliff near Edinburgh.
[81] Crimson.


THE TWO CORBIES.[[82]]

As I was walking all alane

I heard twa corbies making a mane;

The tane unto the t'other say,

"Where sail we gang and dine to-day?"

"In behint yon auld fail[[83]] dyke,

I wot there lies a new-slain knight;