My Love She's but a Lassie Yet
written in 1790
My Love She's but a Lassie Yet - meaning Summary
Courtship and Playful Impatience
This short song treats courtship and convivial life with teasing humor. The speaker describes a young woman still a "lassie," suggesting patience will temper her sauciness, yet he half-regrets having pursued her. The poem shifts to celebrate drinking and communal pleasure, closing with a comic image of a minister distracted by a fiddler’s wife. Overall it balances flirtatious anxiety about love with rural revelry, presenting desire, social awkwardness, and merriment as ordinary parts of communal life rather than lofty passions.
Read Complete AnalysesMy love she's but a lassie yet, My love she's but a lassie yet; We'll let her stand a year or twa, She'll no be half sae saucy yet. I rue the day I sought her O, I rue the day I sought her O, Wha gets her needs na say he's woo'd, But he may say he's bought her O. Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet, Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet: Gae seek for Pleasure whare ye will, But here I never misst it yet. We're a' dry wi' drinking o't, We're a' dry wi' drinking o't: The minister kisst the fidler's wife, He could na preach for thinking o't.
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