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 Were I but able to rehearse My Ewie's praise in proper verse, I'd found it out as loud and fierce As ever pipers drone could blaw. The ewie wi the crookit horn: Wha had kent her might hae sworn Sic a ewe was never born, Here about nor far awa. I never needed tar nor keil To mark her upo hip or heel, Her crookit horn did as weel To ken hersby amo them a; She never threatned scab nor rot, But keepit ay her ain jog-trot, Baith to the sauld and to the cot, Was never sweir to lead nor ca