The canles gaed oot, they waurna weel licht,
Swords an spears they glancet fou bricht;
Sae laith as she was her true-love to beguile,
Because he brocht mony men frae the West Isle.
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B
Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 85.
1
Charlie M’Pherson, that brisk Highland laddie,