Ettrick

Wild Ettrick, Wild Ettrick,

Your blue river gleams,

An azure cloak'd lover

That rides thro' my dreams,

The heath's at your stirrup,

The broom's at your knee,

You sing in your saddle

A love song to me.

Thro' green lands you led me

In lone ways apart

In long days you told me

Things dear to my heart,

In dream-time, in silence,

With haunting refrain

You murmur them over

And over again.

Wild Ettrick, Wild Ettrick

Love-raider in blue

Ah! Swing me to saddle

And take me with you

To glens of remembrance

And hills of desire,

The stars over Kirkhope

The Moon on the Swire.