lasses quotes

  • Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.

    - Robert Burns
      'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

  • I've heard the lilting at our yowe-milking, Lasses a-lilting before the dawn o'day; But now theyare moaning on ilka green loaning: 'The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away'. See Cockburn 224:55.

    -Jean also known as Jane Elliot Elliot
      'The Flowers of the Forest', stanza1.

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