"There came a tod to the bought-door,

"The like I never saw;

"And ere he had tane the lamb he did,

"I had lourd he had ta'en them a'."

O whan fifteen weeks was come and gane,

Fifteen weeks and three.

That lassie began to look thin and pale,

An' to long for his merry twinkling e'e.

It fell on a day, on a het simmer day,

She was ca'ing out her father's kye,