paitrick
Britishnoun
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Mourn, ye wee songsters o' the wood; Ye grouse that crap the heather bud; Ye curlews, calling thro' a clud; Ye whistling plover; And mourn, we whirring paitrick brood; He's gane for ever!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Mourn, ye wee songsters o' the wood; Ye grouse that crap the heather bud; crop Ye curlews calling thro' a clud; cloud Ye whistling plover; And mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood—partridge He's gane for ever!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
Mourn, ye wee songsters o’ the wood; Ye grouse that crap the heather bud; Ye curlews calling thro’ a clud; Ye whistling plover; An’ mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood!—
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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