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THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
CXXXIX. VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY

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[This young lady was the daughter of the poet’s friend, Graham of Fintray; and the gift alluded to was a copy of George Thomson’s Select Scottish Songs: a work which owes many attractions to the lyric genius of Burns.]

Here, where the Scottish muse immortal lives,

In sacred strains and tuneful numbers join’d,

Accept the gift;—tho’ humble he who gives,

Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.

So may no ruffian feeling in thy breast,

Discordant jar thy bosom-chords among;

But peace attune thy gentle soul to rest,

Or love ecstatic wake his seraph song.

Or pity’s notes in luxury of tears,

As modest want the tale of woe reveals;

While conscious virtue all the strain endears,

And heaven-born piety her sanction seals.


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