Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box...

Or were I in the wildest waste,
London town is like a desert
as in the paradise...
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise.
If thou wert there, if thou wert there.
Or were I monarch of the globe,
I will in London live...
Wi'thee to reign, wi'thee to reign,
The brightest jewel in my crown
Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.