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

63 . One Night as I did Wander

ONE night as I did wander,

When corn begins to shoot,

I sat me down to ponder

Upon an auld tree root;

Auld Ayr ran by before me,

And bicker’d to the seas;

A cushat crooded o’er me,

That echoed through the braes