The Book of Scottish Song/Po'k-head Wood

Po’k-head Wood.

[Rev. Thomas Brydson.—Po'k-head is a local contraction for Pollock-head, a wood on the estate of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Bart. in Renfrewshire.]

O Po'k-head wood is bonnie,
When the leaves are in their prime;
O, Po'k-head wood is bonnie,
In the tunefu' summer time.

Up spake the brave Sir Archibald—
A comely man to see—
'Twas there I twined a bower o' the birk
For my true love and me.

The hours they lichtsomely did glide,
When we twa linger't there;
Nae human voices but our ain
To break the summer air.

O, sweet in memory are the flowers
That blossom't round the spot,—
I never hear sic music noo,
As swell't the wild bird's note.

The tremblin' licht amang the leaves—
The licht and the shadows seen—
I think of them and Eleanor,
Her voice and love-fill'd een.

O, Po'k-head wood is bonnie,
When the leaves are in their prime:
O, Po'k-head wood is bonnie,
In the tunefu' summer time.

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