The Poetical Works of Robert Burns/Prayer for Mary
PRAYER FOR MARY.
TUNE—'BLUE BONNETS.'
Powers celestial, whose protectionEver guards the virtuous fair,While in distant climes I wander,Let my Mary be your care:Let her form sae fair and faultless,Fair and faultless as your own;Let my Mary's kindred spiritDraw your choicest influence down.
Make the gales you waft around herSoft and peaceful as her breast;Breathing in the breeze that fans her,Soothe her bosom into rest:Guardian angels, O protect her,When in distant lands I roam;To realms unknown while fate exiles me,Make her bosom still my home.