Then taking down Chambers’s Scottish Songs, he read aloud:—
“O I’m wat, wat,
O I’m wat and weary;
Yet fain wad I rise and rin,
If I thocht I would meet my dearie.
Aye waukin’, O!
Waukin’ aye, and weary;
Sleep, I can get nane
For thinkin’ o’ my dearie.
Simmer’s a pleasant time,