13
In again she quickly ran:
'Here's a lady or a swan in our mill-dam.'

14
Out went the miller and his man
And took the lady out of the dam.

15
They laid her on the brae to dry;
Her father's fiddler then rode by.

16
When he this lady did come near,
Her ghost to him then did appear.

17
'When you go to my father the king,
You'll tell him to burn my sister Jean.

18
'When you go to my father's gate,
You'll play a spring for fair Ellen's sake.

19
'You'll tak three links of my yellow hair,
And play a spring for evermair.'

Q.

Copied Oct. 26, 1861, by J.F. Campbell, Esq., from a collection made by Lady Caroline Murray; traced by her to an old nurse, and beyond the beginning of this century.