5
'O false mother, when we were thine,
Ye did not feed us on the bread and the wine.'
* * * * *
6
'Seven years a fish in the sea,
And seven years a bird in the tree.
7
'Seven years to ring a bell,
And seven years porter in hell.'
L.
Smith's Scottish Minstrel, IV, 33, 2d ed.
1
A lady lookd out at a castle wa,
Fine flowers in the valley
She saw twa bonnie babes playing at the ba.
And the green leaves they grow rarely
2
'O my bonnie babes, an ye were mine,
I would cleed ye i the scarlet sae fine.
3
'I 'd lay ye saft in beds o down,
And watch ye morning, night and noon.'
4
'O mither dear, when we were thine,
Ye didna cleed us i the scarlet sae fine.