Algernon Charles Swinburne

“ Had ne'er gaun round a man's body.
"Gin my mither had dreamed a dream
That sic a kail should fall on me,
She had bound me between her smock and her kirtle
And cast me ower the sea.
"She had row'd me between her smock and her kirtle,
Let me to swim or sink;
And I had drunken o' the saut water
Instead of tears to drink.
"The bairn that is waxen me within,
It is waxen a pain to me;
But weel lie he and ever weel
That made my bairn's body. ”