Love thou hast pleasures; and deep hae I loved; ⚫ Love thou hast sorrows; and sair hae I proved: But this bruised heart that now bleeds in my breast, I can feel by its throbbings will soon be at rest. O if I were, where happy I hae been ; FRAGMENT. Her flowing locks, the raven's wing, Her lips are roses wat wi' dew, O, what a feast, her bonie mou! Her cheeks a mair celestial hue, A crimson still diviner. BALLAD. BALLAD. To thee, lov'd Nith, thy gladsome`plains, To thee I bring a heart unchang'd. I love thee Nith, thy banks and braes, For there he rov'd that brake my heart Yet to that heart, ah, still how dear! FRAGMENT. The winter it is past, and the simmer comes at last, And the small birds sing on every tree; Now every thing is glad while I am very sad, Since my true love is parted from me. The rose upon the brier by the waters running clear, diss May have charms for the linnet or the bee; Their little loves are blest, and their little hearts at rest, But my true love is parted from me. SONG. SONG. Tune-Banks of Banna. Yestreen I had a pint o' wine, Ye monarchs tak the east and west, Gie me within my straining grasp Awa thou flaunting god o' day! Ilk star gae hide thy twinkling ray SONG. SONG.* The Deil cam fiddling thro' the town, "We'll mak our maut, and brew our drink, "There's threesome reels, and foursome reels, "There's hornpipes and strathspeys, man; "But the ae best dance e'er cam to our lan', "Was-the Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman. "We'll mak our maut, &c." SONG. * At a meeting of his brother Excisemen in Dumfries, Burns being called upon for a Song, handed these verses extempore to the President, written on the back of a letter. SONG. Powers celestial, whose protection Draw your choicest influence down. Make the gales you waft around her, HUNTING Probably written on Highland Mary, on the eve of the poet's departure to the West Indies. 1 |