Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

by Walter Scott

And laith laith to be dang,[^[D]]

But, ere she wan the Lowden banks,

Her fair colour was wan.

Then up bespak her eldest brother,

"O see na ye what I see?"

And out then spak her second brother,

"Its our sister Marjorie!"

Out then spak her eldest brother,

"O how shall we her ken?"

And out then spak her youngest brother,