Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - online book

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	I. LOVE : PERSONAL	67
	No. 66. O thou pale Orb that silent shines. Tune: Scots Queen Scots Musical Museum, 1788, No. 190.
	O thou pale Orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep ! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines, And wanders here to wail and weep ! With woe I nightly vigils keep, Beneath thy wan, unwarming beam ; And mourn, in lamentation deep, How life and love are all a dream ! O, thou bright Queen, who o'er th'expanse Now highest reign'st with boundless sway! Oft has thy silent-marking glance Observ'd us, fondly-wan'dring, stray ! The time, unheeded, sped away, While Love's luxurious pulse beat high, Beneath thy silver-gleaming ray, To mark the mutual-kindling eye. O scenes in strong remembrance set! Scenes, never, never to return ! Scenes if in stupor I forget, Again I feel, again I burn ! From ev'ry joy and pleasure torn, Life's weary vale I'll wander thro', And hopeless, comfortless, I'll mount A faithless woman's broken vow.