At the voice o this lovely may.

7

‘O well may you sing, my well-far’d maid,

And well may you sing, I say,

For this is a mirk and a misty night,

And I’ve ridden out o my way.’

8

‘Ride on, ride on, young man,’ she said,

‘Ride on the way ye ken;

But keep frae the streams o the Rock-river,