5

She’s taen the sheave-wisps out o her sheen,

An in behint the door,

An she has faen to the stale strang,

Seven year auld an more.

6

An aye she scrubbit, an aye she weesh,

Out-ower the pint o her chin,

Till a knip-knap cam to the door,

She kent it was her wooer.