Green Grows the Rashes/The Lassie o' my Heart

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4265903Green Grows the Rashes — The Lassie o' my HeartRobert Burns (1759-1796)

THE LASSIE O' MY HEART.

O wha is she that lo'es me,
And has my heart a keeping?
O sweet is she that lo'es me,
As dews o'simmer weeping.
In tears the rose-buds steeping.
  O that's the lassie o' my heart,
   My lassie ever dearer:
  O that's the queen o' womankind,
   And ne'er a ane to peer her.

If thou shalt meet a lassie,
In grace and beauty charming,
That e'en thy chosen lassie,
Ere while the breast sae warming,
Had e'er sic power alarming.
   O that's &c

I? thou hadst her talking,
And thy attentions plighted,
That ilka body talking,
But her by the is alighted:
And thou art all delighted.
   O that's, &c.

If thou hast met this fair one,
When frae her thou hast parted
If every other fair one,
But her thou hast deserted,
And thou art broken-hearted.
   O that's, &c.