• One evening walking out, I o’ertook a modest colleen,
    When the wind was blowing cool, and the harvest leaves were falling:
    “Is our way by chance the same? might we travel on together?”
    “Oh, I keep the mountain side,” she replied, “among the heather.”

    “Your mountain air is sweet when the days are long and sunny,
    When the grass grows round the rocks, and...

  • From the bonny bells of heather
      They brewed a drink long-syne,
    Was sweeter far than honey,
      Was stronger far than wine.
    They brewed it and they drank it,
      And lay in a blessèd swound
    For days and days together
      In the dwellings underground.

    There rose a king in Scotland,
      A fell man to his foes,
    He smote...