wae

Weariful and wae, how thankfully would I have rested beside him for ever; but then there was the bairn to claim my care.

He fell in a rain of tears, fearing nor death nor hardship, I knew, but wae at the abandonment of his home.

Wae's me for the godly,' and again he lifted his eyes upward as a hound crying u-lu-lu for his lost master.

O mickle yeuks the keckle doup,An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae!

May the Devil fly away with these artists; though no sooner had he done so than we should be 'wae' for auld Nicky-ben.