I'll Aye Ca' in by Yon Town
I'll Aye Ca' in by Yon Town - fact Summary
Probably About Jean Armour
This short, songlike poem expresses a speaker’s repeated promise to return to a particular town and garden to see his beloved Jean. It frames love as a quiet, recurring devotion: secret meetings, glimpses beneath an oak, and the intensified joy of reunion. The tone is affectionate and resolute rather than dramatic. The poem reflects Burns’s romantic feelings for a woman named Jean and uses simple rural imagery to convey steady longing and domestic attachment.
Read Complete AnalysesI'll aye ca' in by yon town, And by yon garden-green again; I'll aye ca' in by yon town, And see my bonie Jean again. There's nane sall ken, there's nane can guess What brings me back the gate again, But she, my fairest faithfu' lass, And stownlins we shall meet again. She'll wander by the aiken tree, When trystin time draws near again; And when her lovely form I see, O haith! she's doubly dear again. I'll aye ca' in by yon town, And by yon garden-green again; I'll aye ca' in by yon town, And see my bonie Jean again.
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