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title: "Out over the Forth"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1791"
location: "Ellisland"
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/out-over-the-forth/"
---

# Out over the Forth

## Song
Out over the Forth, I look to the North;  
But what is the north and its Highlands to me?  
The south nor the east gie ease to my breast,  
The far foreign land, or the wide rolling sea.

But I look to the west when I gae to rest,  
That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be;  
For far in the west lives he I loe best,  
The man that is dear to my babie and me.

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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/out-over-the-forth/