Notes
1] Loch Lomond is a lake, about 22 miles by 5 miles in size, north of Dumbarton in Scotland.
2] lawing: price, reckoning.
3] wuddy: "A euphemism for the hangman's rope or the gallows" (Lang's note).
ain: own.
4] dawing: dawn.
5] laigh: low.
9] kenned the Cause's fa': understood that the Cause (perhaps the Jacobite insurrection supporting Prince Charles) had failed.
11] glen: narrow mountain valley.
toom: empty.
12] ha': hall's (?).
15] Sergeant Môr: John Du Cameron, a large Scots rebel in France who returned home in 1745 to join the rebellion. Afterwards he and his fellow outlaws escaped to the mountains and stole cattle from opposed landowners. Betrayed and captured in 1753, he was taken to Perth, tried, and hanged.
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Original text: The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang, ed. Mrs. Lang, 4 vols. (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1923): I, 55-56. British Library 011645.ee.47
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2001
Recent editing: 2:2002/2/20
Rhyme: abcb