#A# 26
And aft she cried, ‘Ohon! alas! alas!
A sair heart’s ill to win;
I wan a sair heart when I married him,
And the day it’s well returned again.’
My friend the late Mr Norval Clyne thought that this obscure
stanza might perhaps be cleared up by the following verses,
communicated to him in 1873 by the Rev. George Sutherland,
Episcopal clergyman at Tillymorgan, Aberdeenshire.