XXVIII.
ON CESSNOCK BANKS.
Tune—“If he be a butcher neat and trim.”
[There are many variations of this song, which was first printed by Cromek from the oral communication of a Glasgow Lady, on whose charms, the poet, in early life, composed it.]
I.
On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
Could I describe her shape and mien;
Our lasses a’ she far excels,
An she has twa sparkling roguish een.
II.
She’s sweeter than the morning dawn
When rising Phœbus first is seen,
And dew-drops twinkle o’er the lawn;
An’ she has twa sparkling roguish een
III.