Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - online book

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	I. LOVE : PERSONAL		7r
	I see her in the dewy flowers. I see her sweet and fair: I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air: There's not a bonie flower that spring By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonie bird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean.
	No. 70. O, how can I be blythe and glad?
	Tune : The borne lad that's far awa.	Scots Musical Museum, 1792, No. 317.
	O, how can I be blythe and glad, Or how can I gang brisk and braw, When the bonie lad that I lo'e best) ,., Is o'er the hills and far awa.          ) -It's no the frosty winter wind, It's no the driving drift and snaw ; But ay the tear comes in my e'e ) ,. To think on him that's far awa. ) My father pat me frae his door, My friends they hae disown'd me a'; But I hae ane will tak my part— ) , . The bonie lad that's far awa ) A pair o1 glooves he bought to me, And silken snoods he gae me twa, And I will wear them for his sake, ) ,. The bonie lad that's far awa.        ) O, weary winter soon will pass, And spring will deed the birken-shaw, And my sweet baby will be born, ) ,. And he'll be hame that's far awa. )