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E'en time itself despairs to cure
Those pangs to ev'iy feeling due :
Ungenerous youth ! thy boast how poor,
To win a heart—and break it too.
No cold approach, no alter'd mien,
Just what would make suspicion start
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No pause the dire extremes between.
He made me blest— and broke my heart.
From hope, the wretched's anchor, torn ;
Neglected and neglecting all
Friendless, forsaken, and forlorn ;
The tears I shed must ever fall.
THE SOUTERS O' SELKIRK.
Tune— The Souters of Selkirk.
It's up with the souters o' Selkirk,
And doun wi' the Earl o' Hume I
And here is to a' the braw laddies
That wear the single-soled shoon !
Fye upon yellow and yellow.
And fye upon yellow and green ;
But up wi' the true blue and scarlet,
And up wi* the single-soled shoon.
It's up wi' the souters o' Selkirk,
For they are baith trusty and leal
* The quatrain ending here was supplied by Burns, to make the stanzas
suit the music. This beautiful poem first appeared in Johnson's Musical
Museum, Part IV, 1792.
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