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Song—Out over the Forth

by Robert Burns, 1791

Out over the Forth, I look to the North;
  But what is the north and its Highlands to me?
The south nor the east gie ease to my breast,
  The far foreign land, or the wide rolling sea.

But i look to the west when I gae to rest,
  That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
  The man that is dear to my babie and me.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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