Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.