Spring Strathspy

                         (source unknown)

Myrddin was playing his pipes in the wood,
And it sounded sae good to my feeling;
Hiree-hiroo stirred the dance in my blood,
And my fresh maidenhood started reeling.

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Sweetly it drew me,
The sound that went through me,
As if shure it knew me,
A maiden-song, laughing long.
I'm shure that I hear it,
O let me draw near it,
I want to be merrily
Courted in spring.

'Round us the trees formed a wheel in my mind,
As if all woman-kind were careering;
Softly he touched me, our hands intertwined
And we gently reclined in the clearing.

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Dew-fall to star-fall he made love to me
In a manner sae free and revealing;
Swift-footed, light-footed, goat-footed he
Played his sweet melody with sutch feeling.

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Day break, and I wake to spring's sweet bouquet
And the glorious day of beginning;
Myrddin is gone on his magical way,
But the Equinox Day leaves me spinning.

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