III
‘Smile na sae sweet, my bonny babes,
An’ ye smile sae sweet, ye’ll smile me dead.
IV
‘And, O bonny babes, if ye suck sair,
Ye’ll never suck by my side mair.’
V
She’s ta’en out her little penknife
And twinn’d[200] the sweet babes o’ their life.
VI
She’s howket a grave baith deep and wide,
And there she’s buried them side by side.
VII
She’s buried them baith beneath the brier,
And washed her hands wi’ mony a tear.