Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border; The English, for ance, by guile won the day: The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost, The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jean Elliot (1727–1805), Scottish lyricist. The Flowers of the Forest (l. 17–20). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
