Burns' Popular Songs/Sweetest May

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4537949Burns' Popular Songs — Sweetest MayRobert Burns (1759-1796)

Sweetest May.

Sweetest May, let love inspire thee;
Take a heart which he desires thee;
As thy constant slave regard it;
For its faith and truth reward it.

Proof o' shot to birth or money,
Not the wealthy but the bonnie;
Not high-born, but noble-minded,
In love's silken band can bind it.