High shelt’ring woods and wa’s maun shield;

But thou, beneath the random bield,

O’ clod or stane,

Adorns the histie stibble-field,

Unseen, alane.

There in thy scanty mantle clad,

Thy snawy bosom sun-ward spread,

Thou lifts thy unassuming head

In humble guise;

But now the share uptears thy bed,