I'll set me down and sing and spin,

While laigh descends the simmer sun, low

Blest wi' content, and milk and meal—

O leeze me on my spinnin'-wheel.

On ilka hand the burnies trot, every, brooklets

And meet below my theekit cot; thatched

The scented birk and hawthorn white birch

Across the pool their arms unite,

Alike to screen the birdie's nest,

And little fishes' caller rest: cool