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For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa'.
--
The Mariner's Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

William Julius Mickle

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