<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566862" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>O Jenny Dear, I’ve Courted Lang</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Jenny dear, I've courted lang,<br>I've telt my tale and sung my sang,<br>And yet I fear I'm i' the wrang,<br>For ye'll na mak a wedding o't.<br>In winter when the frost and snaw<br>Wi' bitter blast around wad blaw,<br>I'd o'er the moor, nor mind it a',<br>In hopes ye'd mak a wedding o't.<br>And gin ye smil'd or kindly spak,<br>It smooth'd the road, and help'd me back;<br>I thought nae answer I wad tak,<br>For we wad mak a wedding o't.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, when I gae to kirk or fair,<br>The laddies scoff, the lassies jeer;--<br>``Is this poor Jock?--the good be here!<br>For sure he's made a wedding o't.<br>What is become of a' his fun?<br>Alak! his joyfu' days are done;<br>Or else he's pawn'd his dancing shoon,<br>Sin he has made a wedding o't.<br>Sure marriage is a dreadfu' thing!<br>Ye mind 'tis only i' the spring<br>That little birdies chirp and sing,<br>Or, till they've made a wedding o't.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then up spak honest Johnny Bell:<br>``My bairns, I ance was young mysel;<br>I've mony a blithsome tale to tell<br>Sin first I made a wedding o't;<br>My Tibby was a winsome bride,--<br>Nay, yet she is her auld man's pride!<br>Nae faut i' her I ever spyed,<br>Sin first we made a wedding o't:<br>Ilk day we live we fonder grow,<br>Though buckl'd fifty years ago;<br>Here's comfort for ye, young ones a',<br>Then haste ye, mak a wedding o't.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Susanna+Blamire">Susanna Blamire</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566862" data-title="O Jenny Dear, I’ve Courted Lang de Susanna Blamire" data-description="O Jenny dear, I've courted lang, I've telt my tale and sung my sang, And yet I fear I'm i' the wrang, For ye'll na mak a wedding o't. In winter when the frost and snaw Wi' bitter blast around wad blaw, I'd o'er the moor, nor mind it a', In hopes y..."></div> </div> </div>

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