I wat it was with sorrow—

And in a den she spied nine slain men,

On the dowie banks o Yarrow.

7

O she kissed his mouth, and she combd his hair,

As she had done before, O;

She drank the bleed that from him ran,

On the dowie banks o Yarrow.

8

‘Take hame your oxen, tak hame your kye,