The Sailors Wife - W. J. Mickle

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154 The Sailors Wife
The one-hundred and fifty-fourth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

Burns justly named this "one of the most beautiful songs in the Scots or any other language." One verse, interpolated by Beattie, is here omitted:—it contains two good lines, but is quite out of harmony with the original poem.

Bigonet: little cap, probably altered from beguinette; thraw: twist; caller: fresh.

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