The brightest jewel in my crown
Wad be my queen, wad be my queen."
The following is Mr. Chambers's account of the origin of this song:—-Jessy Lewars had a call one morning from Burns. He offered, if she would play him any tune of which she was fond, and for which she desired new verses, that he would do his best to gratify her wish. She sat down at the piano, and played over and over the air of an old song, beginning with the words—
"The robin cam' to the wren's nest,
And keekit in, and keekit in:
'O wae's me on your auld pow!
Wad ye be in, wad ye be in?
Ye'se ne'er get leave to lie without.
And I within, and I within,
As lang's I hae an auld clout,