"There are many variations of this affecting tale. One of them appears in the Musical Museum, and is there called 'Fine Flowers of the Valley,' of which the present is either the original or a parallel song. I am inclined to think it is the original." Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, p. 267.
This is translated by Talvj, Versuch, p. 571.
1
There sat 'mang the flowers a fair ladie,
Sing ohon, ohon, and ohon O
And there she has born a sweet babie.
Adown by the greenwode side O
2
An strait she rowed its swaddling band,
An O! nae mother grips took her hand.
3
O twice it lifted its bonnie wee ee:
'Thae looks gae through the saul o me!'
4
She buried the bonnie babe neath the brier,
And washed her hands wi mony a tear.
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And as she kneelt to her God in prayer,
The sweet wee babe was smiling there.
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'O ay, my God, as I look to thee,
My babe 's atween my God and me.
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'Ay, ay, it lifts its bonnie wee ee:
'"Sic kindness get as ye shawed me."'