heather quotes

'Yestreen I dreamed a dolefu'dream; I ken'd here wad be sorrow! I dreamed I pu'd the heather green, On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.' She gaed up yon high, high hill I wat she gaed wi'sorrow An' in the den spied nine dead men, On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

Ca'the yowes to the knowes, Ca'them whare the heather grows, Ca'them whare the burnie rowes, My bonie Dearie!

- Robert Burns
  'Ca' the yowes to the knowes' (2nd version), chorus.

So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; An''ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air You big black boundin' beggarfor you broke a British square!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Fuzzy- Wuzzy'.

I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather The bonnie bloomin' heather Mary, ma Scotch Bluebell.

- Sir Harry (Hugh MacLennan) Lauder
  'I Love a Lassie', or 'Ma Scotch Bluebell', chorus.

Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.

- Sir Walter Scott
  On a matchbetween the Scottish teams Ettrick andSelkirk, published in the EdinburghJournal.