I [ha] forgetten my mider’s blissing,

To boun to bridstell we me.’

6

‘God’s blissing an mine gae we ye, my son Willie,

A’ the blissings of God ga we ye;

For y’er na an hour but bare ninten,

Fan y’er gain to meet yer Meggey.’

7

They road on, an ferder on,

Till they came to the water of Gamry;