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title: "Of a’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1788"
tune: "Miss Admiral Gordon’s Strathspey"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/of-a-the-airts-the-wind-can-blaw/"
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# Of a’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw

## Song
Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw,  
I dearly like the west,  
For there the bonie lassie lives,  
The lassie I lo’e best:

There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row,  
And mony a hill between:  
But day and night my fancys’ flight  
Is ever wi’ my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers,  
I see her sweet and fair:  
I hear her in the tunefu’ birds,  
I hear her charm the air:  
There’s not a bonie flower that springs,  
By fountain, shaw, or green;  
There’s not a bonie bird that sings,  
But minds me o’ my Jean.

## Footnotes
1. Written during a separation from Mrs. Burns in their honeymoon. Burns was preparing a home at Ellisland; Mrs. Burns was at Mossgiel.—Lang.

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