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11The auld man's mear's dead!The auld man's mear's dead;
22⁠The puir man's mear's dead!⁠The puir body's mear's dead;
33⁠The auld man's mear's dead,⁠The auld man's mear's dead,
44⁠A mile aboon Dundee!⁠A mile aboon Dundee.
55
66She was cut-luggit, painch-lippit,There was hay to ca', and lint to lead,
77Steel-waimet, staincher-fittet,A hunder hotts o' muck to spread,
88Chanler-chaftit, lang-neckit,And peats and truffs and a' to lead —
99⁠Yet the brute did dee!⁠And yet the jaud to dee!
10⁠The auld,...
1110
1211The auld man's mear's dead!She had the fiercie and the fleuk,
1312The puir man's mear's dead!The wheezloch and the wanton yeuk;
1413The peats, and neeps, and a' to lend,On ilka knee she had a breuk —
1514⁠And she is gane - waes me!⁠What ail'd the beast to dee?
16⁠The auld, ...
1715
1816The puir man's head's sairShe was lang-tooth'd and blench-lippit,
1917Wi' greetin' for his gray mear;Heam-hough'd and haggis-fittit,
2018He's like to dee himsel' wi' care,Lang-neckit, chandler-chaftit,
2119⁠Aside the green kirk-yard.⁠And yet the jaud to dee!
22⁠The auld, ...
23
24He's thinkin' on the bygane days.
25And a' her douce and canny ways:
26And how his ain gudewife, auld Meg,
27⁠Micht maist as weel been spaired.
28⁠The auld, ...

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