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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,David	Lyr Req: Lady Keith's Lament (9)	RE: Lyr Req: Lady Keith's Lament	03 Feb 21
A Byke, in modern Scots usage, is a wasps nest. The Scottish National Dictionary gives bees or wasps or ants nest in the 1800s. Wild bees would be no more welcome a neighbour that wasps, but are now rare. I've always taken it as a wasps nest, which makes complete sense of the song.

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