CV.
Reading edition
WHAN I SLEEP I DREAM.
[This presents another version of song LXV. Variations are to a poet what changes are in the thoughts of a painter, and speak of fertility of sentiment in both.]
I.
Whan I sleep I dream, Whan I wauk I’m eerie, Sleep I canna get, For thinkin’ o’ my dearie.
II.
Lanely night comes on, A’ the house are sleeping, I think on the bonnie lad That has my heart a keeping. Ay waukin O, waukin ay and wearie, Sleep I canna get, for thinkin’ o’ my dearie.
III.
Lanely nights come on, A’ the house are sleeping, I think on my bonnie lad, An’ I blear my een wi’ greetin’! Ay waukin, &c.