And when they brought her home again,

Aye of the Green Folk was she fain:

They brought her leannan, Roy McLean,

She looked at him with proud disdain.

“For I have killed a man,” she said,

“A better man than you to wed:

I slew him when he claspt my head,

And now he sleepeth with the dead.

“And did you see that little wren?

My sister dear it was, flew then!