Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

200 . Song—The Young Highland Rover

LOUD blaw the frosty breezes,

The snaws the mountains cover;

Like winter on me seizes,

Since my young Highland rover

Far wanders nations over.

Where’er he go, where’er he stray,

May heaven be his warden;

Return him safe to fair Strathspey,

And bonie Castle-Gordon!

The trees, now naked groaning,

Shall soon wi’ leaves be hinging,

The birdies dowie moaning,

Shall a’ be blythely singing,

And every flower be springing;

Sae I’ll rejoice the lee-lang day,

When by his mighty Warden

My youth’s return’d to fair Strathspey,

And bonie Castle-Gordon.