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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Chapter 548: ’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e
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The collection assembles lyrical songs, narrative poems, satirical pieces, epistles, epitaphs, and fragments that shift between convivial drinking verses, tender laments, and comic storytelling. Many lyrics were shaped to traditional airs and preserve vernacular speech, while longer works portray rural labor, domestic scenes, and compassionate encounters with animals. Satire targets religious hypocrisy and social pretension, and several poems take a direct, personal tone of moral reflection or affectionate address. The selections alternate moods and forms, emphasizing melodic phrasing and a versatile technical range.

’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e

Tune—“Laddie, lie near me.”
’Twas na her bonie blue e’e was my ruin, Fair tho’ she be, that was ne’er my undoin’; ’Twas the dear smile when nae body did mind us, ’Twas the bewitching, sweet, stown glance o’ kindness: ’Twas the bewitching, sweet, stown glance o’ kindness. Sair do I fear that to hope is denied me, Sair do I fear that despair maun abide me, But tho’ fell fortune should fate us to sever, Queen shall she be in my bosom for ever: Queen shall she be in my bosom for ever. Chloris, I’m thine wi’ a passion sincerest, And thou hast plighted me love o’ the dearest! And thou’rt the angel that never can alter, Sooner the sun in his motion would falter: Sooner the sun in his motion would falter.