O STAY, sweet warbling woodlark, stay,
Nor quit for me the trembling spray,
A hapless lover courts thy lay,
Thy soothing, fond complaining.
Again, again that tender part,
That I may catch thy melting art;
For surely that wad touch her heart
Wha kills me wi disdaining.
Say, was thy little mate unkind,
And heard thee as the careless wind?
Oh, nocht but love and sorrow joind,
Sic notes o woe could wauken!
Thou tells o never-ending care;
Ospeechless grief, and dark despair:
For pitys sake, sweet bird, nae mair!
Or my poor heart is broken.
