Oh! when, at last, my fleshly eyes

Shall shut upon the vields an' skies,

Mid zummer's zunny days be gone,

An' winter's clouds be comèn on:

Nor mid I draw upon the e'th,

O' thy sweet aïr my leätest breath;

Alassen I mid want to staÿ

Behine' for thee, O flow'ry May!

BOB THE FIDDLER.