"When trees did bud and fields were green, And broom bloom’d fair to see, When Mary was complete fifteen, And love laugh’d in her ee, Blythe Davie’s blinks her heart did move To speak her mind thus free: Gang doun the burn, Davie love, An’ I will follow thee."
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A more English version printed in A Collection of Old Ballads, vol. 3 (London: printed for J. Roberts, 1725), p. 251
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Robert Crawford (Scottish poet, died 1733)
1695 – 1733
Robert Crawford (1695–1733) was a Scottish poet.
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