Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e
Scottish Poem By Alexander Gray
Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e is the title of a poem written by the Scottish poet Alexander Gray some time before 1940.This poem likely originated as "Du Hast Diamanten und Perlen" by the German poet Heine, and was translated for inclusion in "The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry", edited by Hugh MacDiarmid and published by Macmillan in 1940.
Sir Alexander Gray CBE FRSE (6 January 1882-17 February 1968) was a Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator, writer and poet who was born in Lochee, near Dundee.
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Lassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'eLassie What Mair Wad Ye Ha'e By Alexander Gray
O, you're braw wi' your pearls and your diamonds,
You've routh o' a' thing, you may say,
And there's nane has got bonnier een, Kate:
'Od, lassie, what mair wad you hae?
You've routh o' a' thing, you may say,
And there's nane has got bonnier een, Kate:
'Od, lassie, what mair wad you hae?
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