the temporary nature of the shieling, and its location high in the scottish hills, are alluded to in the musicologist william sharp's "shieling song" of 1896, which he published under the pseudonym "fiona macleod": "i go where the sheep go, with the sheep are my feet... / o lover, who loves me, / art thou half so fleet? / where the sheep climb, the kye go, / there shall we meet!" ("kye" means "cattle".)