StoryTitle("caps", "Cuddle Doon ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(56, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' muckle faucht an' din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, try an' sleep, ye waukrife rogues, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your father's comin' in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They never heed a word I speak; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I try to gi'e a froon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But aye I hap them up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Jamie wi' the curly heid—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He aye sleeps neist the wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bangs up an' cries, \"I want a piece\"; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rascal starts them a'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I rin an' fetch them pieces, drinks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They stop awee the soun';", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then draw the blankets up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Noo, weanies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ere five minutes gang, wee Rab ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cries oot frae 'neath the claes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mither, mak' Tam gie ower at ance—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He's kittlin' wi' his taes.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mischief's in that Tam for tricks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He'd bother half the toon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But aye I hap them up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(57, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At length they hear their father's fit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And as he steeks the door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They turn their faces to the wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While Tam pretends to snore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hae a' the weans been gud?\" he asks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he pits aff his shoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The bairnies, John, are in their beds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' long since cuddled doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' just afore we bed oorsel's, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We look at oor wee lambs; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tam has his airm roun' wee Rab's neck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' Rab his airm roun' Tam's.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I lift wee Jamie up the bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An', as I straik each croon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I whisper, till my heart fills up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' mirth that's dear to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But sune the big warl's cark an' care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will quaten doon their glee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, come what will to ilka ane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May He who sits aboon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aye whisper, though their pows be bauld, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alexander Anderson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>