Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad

Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad is the title and refrain of a 1793^[1] poem and song by Robert Burns.

In 1904 it was used as the title of a ghost story in the book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James in which a man digs up a bronze whistle in a possible Templar preceptory near Burnstow, a fictionalised version of the town of Felixstowe in Suffolk. The whistle has two phrases inscribed on it in Latin; FLA FUR BIS FLE^[2] and QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT^[3]. His blowing it has unexpected consequences.

References

External links

• Text of the poem by Burns [1]
• Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad at WikiSource