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God ye good-morn, Goff; I's e'en fain You'll put my owse out o' his pain.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William
‘O, turn thee, turn thee, Willie Ha’, O, turn thee, man, and fight wi’ me; When ye come to Troughend again, A yoke o’ owsen I’ll gie thee.’
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank
My Jockie toils upon the plain, Thro' wind and weet, thro' frost and snaw: And o'er the lea I leuk fu' fain, When Jockie's owsen hameward ca'.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
My Jockey toils upon the plain, Thro’ wind and weet, thro’ frost and snaw; And o’er the lea I leuk fu’ fain, When Jockey’s owsen hameward ca’.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Sheep will die in cots, mither, And owsen die in byre;50 And what's this warld's wealth to me, An I get na my heart's desire?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
I. When o’er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo; And owsen frae the furrow’d field Return sae dowf and weary, O!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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