with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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in one or other character has msited most of the
Correction Houses in the West.—She was horn^ I
believe J in Kilmarnock:—/ took the song doim
from her singing as she was strolling through the
countrz/, with a slight-of-hand blackguard.
Comin' thro' the Craigs o' Kyle,
Amang the bonnie blooming heather,
There I met a bonnie lassie.
Keeping a' her yowes thegither.
O'er the moor amang the heather,
O'er the moor amang the heather,
There I met a bonnie lassie,
Keeping a' her yowes thegither.
Says I my dearie where is thy hame.
In moor or dale pray tell me whether ?
She says, I tent the fleecy flocks
That feed amang the blooming heather,
O'er the moor, S^c.
We laid us down upon a bank,
Sae warm and sunny was the weather,
She left her flocks at large to rove
Amang the bonnie blooming heather.
O'er the moor, ^c.