Law or lust is to blame

When love’s chokit up

—It comes a’ to the same.

In this sorry growth

Whatna beauty is tint

That freed o’t micht find

A waur fate than is in’t?...

Yank oot your orra boughs, my hert!

God gied man speech and speech created thocht,

He gied man speech but to the Scots gied nocht