The Poetry of Robert Burns Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson |
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YOUNG JAMIE |
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YOUNG JAMIE
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Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain,Sae gallant and sae gay a swain,
Thro' a' our lasses he did rove,
And reign'd resistless King of Love.
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But now, wi' sighs and starting tears,He strays amang the woods and breers;
Or in the glens and rocky caves
His sad complaining dowie raves:—
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I, wha sae late did range and rove,And chang'd with every moon my love—
I little thought the time was near,
Repentance I should buy sae dear.
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‘The slighted maids my torments see,And laugh at a' the pangs I dree;
While she, my cruel, scornful Fair,
Forbids me e'er to see her mair.’
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