The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/Out over the Forth

by Robert Burns

For other versions of this work, see Out Over the Forth.

I.

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!

II.

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.

Henderson and Henley's Text.