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  • “Our kail is like to be cauld eneugh too,” he reflected, as the chorus of “Cauld Kail in Aberdeen” again reached his ears.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • To students of Burns it will ever be of prime interest from the fact that its air, as played by Miss Jessie Lewars to the poet only a few days before his death, supplied the hint for his most tender and touching lyric, "O Wert them in the Cauld Blast."

    Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

  • This was followed by a solo from Mac -- a sad little Irish song -- and another duet by Mac and Patsy, "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," followed by "Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast," sung in parts by Jack,

    Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

  • Cauld blaws the wind frae north to south, vol. i.,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • “Cauld mould is my covering now, But and my winding-sheet; The dew it falls nae sooner down, 135Than my resting-place is weet.

    Clerk Saunders 1921

  • Again, in such songs as _Of a 'the Airts_, _Poortith Cauld_, and others addressed to Jean herself, we have an expression of his less than rapturous but entirely genuine affection for his wife.

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • _O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast_, 122, quoted 123.

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • Oh, open the door to me, O! Cauld is the blast upon my pale cheek,

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • _O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast_, besides being one of the most exquisite of his songs, has a pathetic interest from the circumstances under which it was composed.

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • Will You Do, Love, and Robin Adair, to the great enjoyment of everybody; and she persuaded Lyddy to buy the old church melodeon, and learn to sing alto in Oh, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast, Gently, Gently Sighs the

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

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