Lament for Culloden

by Robert Burns

The lovely lass o’ Inverness,
Nae joy nor pleasure can she see;
For e’en and morn she cries, Alas!
And aye the saut tear blink’s her ee:
Drumossie moor — Drumossie day —
A waefu’ day it was to me!
For there I lost my father dear,
My father dear, and brethren three.

Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay,
Their graves are growing green to see:
And by them lies the dearest lad
That ever blest a woman’s ee!
Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord,
A bluidy man I trow thou be;
For mony a heart thou hast made sair
That ne’er did wrong to thine or thee.