of a' the airts the wind can blaw 注释标题 written during a separation from mrs. burns in their honeymoon. burns was preparing a home at ellisland; mrs. burns was at mossgiel.—lang.

tune—“miss admiral gordon's strathspey.”

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