10 Then he’s away to his sister Anne, To the chamber where’s she’s lying: ‘Come doun, come doun, my sister Anne, And take up your true-love Jamie! 11 ‘Come doun, come doun now, sister Anne! For he’s sleeping in yon logie; Sound, sound he sleeps, nae mair to wake, And nae mair need ye be vogie.’ 12 ‘I dreamd a drearie dream yestreen, Gin it be true, it will prove my sorrow; I dreamd my luive had lost his life, Within the yetts o Gowrie. 13 ‘O wae betide ye, lassies o Gowrie For ye hae sleepit soundly; Gin ye had keepit your yetts shut, Ye might hae sav’d the life o my Jamie. 14 ‘Yestreen my luive had a suit o claise Were o the finest tartan; But lang or ere the day did daw They war a’ red bluid to the garten. 15 ‘Yestreen my luive had a suit o claise Were o the apple reamin; But lang or ere the day did daw The red bluid had them streamin.’ 16 In yon fair ha, where the winds did blaw, When the moon shone fair and clearly, She’s thrawn her green skirt oer her head, And ay she cried out mercy. * * * * * O Herd’s MSS, I, 35, II, 181. 1 ‘I dreamd a dreary dream last night, God keep us a’ frae sorrow! I dreamd I pu’d the birk sae green Wi my true luve on Yarrow.’ 2 ‘I’ll read your dream, my sister dear, I’ll tell you a’ your sorrow; You pu’d the birk wi your true luve, He’s killd, he’s killd on Yarrow!’ 3 ‘O gentle wind, that blaweth south To where my love repaireth, Convey a kiss from his dear mouth, And tell me how he fareth! 4 ‘But oer yon glen run armed men, Have wrought me dule and sorrow; They’ve slain, they’ve slain the comliest swain, He bleeding lies on Yarrow.’ * * * * * P Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196, the seventh and tenth stanzas; sent by Burns to William Tytler in 1790. 1 ‘Get up, get up now, sister Ann, I fear we’ve wrought you sorrow; Get up, ye’ll find your true love slain, Among the banks of Yarrow.’ 2 ‘I made my love a suit of clothes, I clad him all in tartan, But ere the morning sun arose, He was a’ bluid to the gartan.’ * * * * * #A.# _The words in ’ ’ are so distinguished in the MS., and are of course emendations._ ‘Than,’ 9^1, _is obviously an insertion_; ‘Now Douglas,’ 11^1, _is entirely unauthorized, and, as before said, is taken from Hamilton’s ballad_; ‘wiped,’ 14^3, _is probably substituted for_ drank, _cf._ 12^3, _etc._; _and_ ‘her,’ 15^3, _is very likely to have been_ his. #B.# 12^1. _Var._ O father dear, I pray forbear. #C.# 7^1. He. 7^3. SHe, _originally_ He.