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title: "Young Jockie Was the Blythest Lad"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1789"
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/young-jockie-was-the-blythest-lad/"
---

# Young Jockie Was the Blythest Lad

## Poem
Young Jockie was the blythest lad,  
In a’ our town or here awa;  
Fu’ blythe he whistled at the gaud,  
Fu’ lightly danc’d he in the ha’.

He roos’d my een sae bonie blue,  
He roos’d my waist sae genty sma’;  
An’ aye my heart cam to my mou’,  
When ne’er a body heard or saw.

My Jockie toils upon the plain,  
Thro’ wind and weet, thro’ frost and snaw:  
And o’er the lea I leuk fu’ fain,  
When Jockie’s owsen hameward ca’.

An’ aye the night comes round again,  
When in his arms he taks me a’;  
An’ aye he vows he’ll be my ain,  
As lang’s he has a breath to draw.

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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/young-jockie-was-the-blythest-lad/