Proud Maisie
Proud Maisie
Original Text
Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, Tales of my Landlord, 4 vols. (Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1818). B-10 1474 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto).
2 Walking so early;
3Sweet Robin sits on the bush,
4 Singing so rarely.
5"Tell me, thou bonny bird,
6 When shall I marry me?"
7"When six braw gentlemen
8 Kirkward shall carry ye."
9"Who makes the bridal bed,
10 Birdie, say truly?"
11"The gray-headed sexton
12 That delves the grave duly.
13"The glow-worm o'er grave and stone
14 Shall light thee steady;
15The owl from the steeple sing,
16 'Welcome, proud lady.' "
Notes
1] Sung by the madwoman Madge Wildfire on her deathbed in chapter XL of The Heart of Midlothian (1818). Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1818
RPO poem Editors
P. F. Morgan
RPO Edition
3RP 2.425.
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