POLWART ON THE GREEN by ALLAN RAMSAY

@3At Polwart on the Green
If you'll meet me the morn,
Where lasses do convene
To dance about the thorn@1;
A kindly welcome you shall meet
Frae her wha likes to view
A lover and a lad complete,
The lad and lover you.

Let dorty dames say na,
As lang as e'er they please,
Seen caulder than the sna',
While inwardly they bleeze;
But I will frankly shaw my mind,
And yield my heart to thee;
Be ever to the captive kind,
That langs na to be free.

At Polwart on the Green,
Among the new-mown hay,
With sangs and dancing keen
We'll pass the heartsome day,
@3At night if beds be o'er thrang laid,
And thou be twin'd of thine,
Thou shalt be welcome, my dear lad,
To take a part of mine@1.

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