When Wild Ward Deadly Blast Lyrics - Burns Robert

WHEN WILD WAR'D DEADLY BLAST 

(Robert Burns) 

When wild war's deadly blast was blawn, 

And gentle peace returning, 

Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless 

And mony a widow mourning. 

I left the lines and tented field 

Where lang I'd been a lodger 

My humble knapsack all my wealth 

A poor but honest sodger. 

At length I reached the bonnie glen 

Where early life I sported; 

I pass'd the mill and trysting thorn 

Where Nancy oft I courted. 

Wha spied I but my ain dear maid 

Down by her mother's dwelling, 

And turn'd me round to hide the flood 

That in my e'e was swelling. 

She gazed, she redden'd like a rose 

Syne pale as any lily, 

She sank within my arms and cried, 

"Art thou my ain dear Willie?" 

"By Him that made you sun and sky 

By whom true love's regarded 

I am the man! And thus may still 

True lovers be rewarded." 

"The wars are owre, an' I've come hame 

And find the still true-hearted; 

Tho' poor in gear, we're rich in love 

And mair we'se ne'er be parted." 

Quoth she, "My grand-sire left me gowd 

A mailin plenished fairly 

Then come, my faithful sodger lad 

Thou'rt welcome to it dearly." 

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