"'The wind slept when we left the bay,

But soon it waked and raised the main;

And God he bore us down the deep—

Wha strave wi' him, but strave in vain.

He stretch'd his arm and took me up,

Tho' laith I was to gang but thee:

I look frae heaven aboon the storm,

Sae Mary, weep nae mair for me!

"'Take aff thae bride-sheets frae thy bed,

Which thou hast faulded down for me,