Читать книгу The Song in the Green Thorn Tree - James William Barke - Страница 5
Оглавление‘Alas! sae sweet a tree as love
Sic bitter fruit should bear.’
From: “The Ruined Maid’s Lament”
By: Robert Burns[1]
| [1] | But not canonical. Represents an attempt (by Hogg and Motherwell) to “purify” a version given in the so-called Merry Muses. The lines quoted are in the Bard’s most characteristic manner. |
