Robert Burns: How To Know Him

by William Allan Neilson

For a Lalland face he feared none,

My gallant braw John Highlandman.

They banish'd him beyond the sea;

But ere the bud was on the tree,

Adown my cheeks the pearls ran,

Embracing my John Highlandman.

But och! they catch'd him at the last,

And bound him in a dungeon fast;

My curse upon them every one!