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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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WHY, WHY TELL THY LOVER

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Why, why tell thy lover
Bliss he never must enjoy?
Why, why undeceive him,
And give all his hopes the lie?

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O, why, while Fancy, raptur'd, slumbers,
‘Chloris, Chloris,’ all the theme,
Why, why wouldst thou, cruel,
Wake thy lover from his dream?
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