He's lifted up the coverlet,155
[Where she, fair Annie, lay;
Sweet was her smile, but wan her cheek;
O wan, and cald as clay!]
"It's I will kiss your bonny cheek,
And I will kiss your chin;160
And I will kiss your clay-cald lip;
But I'll never kiss woman again.
"The day ye deal at Annie's burial
The bread but and the wine;
Before the morn at twall o'clock,165
They'll deal the same at mine."
The tane was buried in Mary's kirk,
The tither in Mary's quire;
And out o' the tane there grew a birk,
And out o' the tither a brier.170
And ay they grew, and ay they drew,
Untill they twa did meet;
And every ane that past them by,
Said, "Thae's been lovers sweet!"
[19]. That is, my slumbers are short, broken, and interrupted. J.
[60]. Duplin town. Duplin is the seat of the earl of Kinnoul, from which he derives his title of viscount. It is in the neighborhood of Perth. It is observable, that ballads are very frequently adapted to the meridian of the place where they are found. J.