of a' the airts the wind can blaw 注释标题 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.