Hw Lang And Drear Is The Nigh
how lang and dreary is the night how lang and dreary is the night when i am frae my dearie; i restless lie frae e'en to morn though i were ne'er sae weary. chorus.—for oh, her lanely nights are lang! and oh, her dreams are eerie; and oh, her window'd heart is sair, that's absent frae her dearie! when i think on the lightsome days i spent wi' thee, my dearie; and now what seas between us roar, how i be but eerie? for oh, c. how slow ye move, ye heavy hours; the joyless day how dreary: it was na sae ye glinted by, when i was wi' my dearie! for oh, c.