“‘Tell me, thou bonnie bird,
When shall I marry me?’
‘When six braw gentlemen
Kirkward shall carry ye.’

‘Who makes the bridal bed,
Birdie, say truly?’
‘The grey-headed sexton
That delves the grave duly.

The glow-worm o’er grave and stone
Shall light thee steady;
The owl from the steeple sing:
‘Welcome, proud lady!’’”

—Sir Walter Scott, (1771–1832).