The cock he hadna craw’d but once,
And clapp’d his wings at a’,
When the youngest to the eldest said,
‘Brother, we must awa’.
XI
‘The cock doth craw, the day doth daw,
The channerin’[253] worm doth chide;
Gin we be miss’d out o’ our place,
A sair pain we maun bide.’—
XII
‘Lie still, lie still but a little wee while,
Lie still but if we may;
Gin my mother should miss us when she wakes,
She’ll go mad ere it be day.’—
XIII
‘Fare ye weel, my mother dear!
Fareweel to barn and byre!
And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother’s fire!’
FOOTNOTES:
[249] carline = old woman.
[250] fashes = troubles.