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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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45

ALTHO' HE HAS LEFT ME

Altho' he has left me for greed o' the siller,
I dinna envý him the gains he can win:
I rather wad bear a' the lade o' my sorrow
Than ever hae acted sae faithless to him.