Robert Tannahill, The Lover's Songster — Jessie the Flower o' Dumblane
“ While lanely I stray, in the calm simmer gloamin', To muse on sweet Jessie the Flower o' Dumblane. How sweet is the briar, wi' its fast saulding blossom, An' sweet is the birk, wi' its mantle o' green; Yet sweeter and fairer, and dear to this bosom, Is lovely young Jessie, the Flower o' Dumblane. Is lovely, &c. She's modest as ony, and blythe as she's bonny, For guileless simplicity marks her its ain: An' far be the villain, divested of feeling, Wha'd blight in its bloom the sweet Flower o' Dumblane. ”
