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
  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.