Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - online book

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	I. LOVE : PERSONAL			39
	She talk'd, she smil'd, my heart she wyl'd, She charm'd my soul I wist na how; And aye the stound, the deadly wound, Cam frae her een sae bonie blue. But 'spare to speak, and spare to speed'— She'll aiblins listen to my vow : Should she refuse, I'll lay my dead To her twa een sae bonie blue.
		No. 40. Blythe hae I been on yon hill.
	Blythe hae I been on yon hill As the lambs before me, Careless ilka thought, and free As the breeze flew o'er me ; Now nae langer sport and play, Mirth or sang can please me; Lesley is sae fair and coy, Care and anguish seize me.		Heavy, heavy is the task, Hopeless love declaring; Trembling, I dow nocht but glow'r, Sighing, dumb despairing! If she winna ease the thraws In my bosom swelling, Underneath the grass-green sod Soon maun be my dwelling.