Nor wed a maid so poor.”

Yet still would Sandy joyous sing,

“Fair maid, O be but mine;

More blest I’d be than laird or king,

With Anna of the Tyne.”

“For Anna thou art rich in charms,

The wealth of worlds to me;

Then wed, and bless thy lover’s arms.”

She smil’d, and blest was he.

How rapturous then did Sandy sing,