XV.
Reading edition
A FRAGMENT.
Tune—“John Anderson my jo.”
[This verse, written early, and probably intended for the starting verse of a song, was found among the papers of the poet.]
One night as I did wander, When corn begins to shoot, I sat me down to ponder, Upon an auld tree root: Auld Ayr ran by before me, And bicker’d to the seas; A cushat crooded o’er me, That echoed thro’ the braes.