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title: "Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/bonie-peg-a-ramsay/"
---

# Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay

## Poem
Cauld is the e’enin blast,  
O’ Boreas o’er the pool,  
An’ dawin’ it is dreary,  
When birks are bare at Yule.

Cauld blaws the e’enin blast,  
When bitter bites the frost,  
And, in the mirk and dreary drift,  
The hills and glens are lost:

Ne’er sae murky blew the night  
That drifted o’er the hill,  
But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay  
Gat grist to her mill.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/bonie-peg-a-ramsay/