Wee wan’erin’ winsome elf, my saul

Wee wan’erin’ winsome elf, my saul (1886)
by Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus, translated by William Duguid Geddes

Earliest publication 1876

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Wee wan’erin’ winsome elf, my saul,
Thou's made this clay lang hoose an’ hall,
But whar, oh whar art now to dwall,
    Thy bield now bare?
Gaun’ flichterin’ feckless, shiverin’ caul’,
    Nae cantrips mair.