The sun was na up, but the moon was down,

It was the gryming of a new-fa’n snaw;

Jamie Telfer has run ten myles a-foot,

Between the Dodhead and the Stobs’s Ha.

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And when he cam to the fair tower-yate,

He shouted loud, and cried weel hie,

Till out bespak auld Gibby Elliot,

‘Whae’s this that brings the fray to me?’

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