| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36424 |
| QUOTATION: | When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,
And a’ the warld to rest are gane,
The waes o’ my heart fa’ in showers frae my e’e,
While my gudeman lies sound by me.
Young Jamie lo’ed me weel, and sought me for his bride; |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lady Anne Lindsay (1750–1825), Scottish poet. Auld Robin Gray (l. 37–40). . .
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press. |
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