ABSTRACT
This piece does not appear in any o f the m ajor Scots collections. It is a kind o f m irror-im age o f ‘O No, N o ’ , a song o f the ‘Lisbon ’/‘Banks o f the N ile’ genre, in which a g irl’s plea that she should be allowed to accompany her lover to war is rejected on the grounds that her beauty would fade and her colour stain when exposed to the frost and rain o f the highlands.
