Willy Drowned in Yarrow - Anon.

128 Willy Drowned in Yarrow
The one-hundred and twenty-eighth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

The Editor has found no authoritative text of this poem, in his judgment superior to any other of its class in melody and pathos. Part is probably not later than the seventeenth century: in other stanzas a more modern hand, much resembling Scott's, is traceable. Logan's poem (127) exhibits a knowledge rather of the old legend than of the old verses.

Hecht: promised, the obsolete hight; mavis: thrush; ilka: every; lav'rock: lark; haughs: valley-meadows; twined: parted from; marrow: mate; syne then.