Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Soldier's Farewell
But nae sich thing has happened yet, I canna think she's read it; Perhaps some serving wench will get Faint praise for having said it.
Now these, 0' course, be troublous times, An' Mistress Wilson's thinking, It's no at words and silly rhymes Her bonnie eyes she's blinking.
But each maun hae his little day, E'en farmers free the furrow, An' bards should sing a little lay O' sodgers home on furlough.
So, in thae lines I bared my heart, And made the revelation.
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