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