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Written during a separation from Mrs. Burns in their honeymoon. Burns was preparing a home at Ellisland; Mrs. Burns was at Mossgiel. -Lang.
Tune-"Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey."
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, / I dearly like the west, / For there the bonie lassie lives, / The lassie I lo'e best:
There's wild-woods grow, and rivers row, / And mony a hill between: / But day and night my fancys' flight / Is ever wi' my Jean.
I see her in the dewy flowers, / I see her sweet and fair: / I hear her in the tunefu' birds, / I hear her charm the air: / There's not a bonie flower that springs, / By fountain, shaw, or green; / There's not a bonie bird that sings, / But minds me o' my Jean.