Book of Old English Ballads, A

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"></SPAN></p> <h2> The Twa Corbies </h2> <p>As I was walking all alane,<br/> I heard twa corbies making a maen:<br/> The tane unto the t'ither did say,<br/> "Whaur shall we gang and dine the day?"<br/> <br/> "O doun beside yon auld fail dyke,<br/> I wot there lies a new-slain knight;<br/> And naebody kens that he lies there<br/> But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair.<br/> <br/> "His hound is to the hunting gane,<br/> His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,<br/> His lady's ta'en another mate,<br/> Sae we may mak' our dinner sweet.<br/> <br/> "O we'll sit on his white hause bane,<br/> And I'll pyke out his bonny blue e'en;<br/> Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair<br/> We'll theek our nest when it blaws bare.<br/> <br/> "Mony a ane for him makes maen,<br/> But nane shall ken whaur he is gane.<br/> Over his banes when they are bare,<br/> The wind shall blaw for evermair."<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />