John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Robert Burns. (1759–1796) (continued) |
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But to see her was to love her, 1 Love but her, and love forever. |
Ae Fond Kiss. |
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Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne’er been broken-hearted! |
Ae Fond Kiss. |
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither! |
Bonny Lesley. |
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Ye banks and braes o’ bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu’ o’ care? |
The Banks of Doon. |
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. |
Sweet Sensibility. |
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The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The man ’s the gowd for a’ that. 2 |
For a’ that an a’ that. |
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A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a’ that; But an honest man ’s aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa’ that. 3 |
For a’ that an a’ that. |
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’T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,—Jessy! |
Jessy. |
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Some hae meat and canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. |
Grace before Meat. |
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It was a’ for our rightfu’ King We left fair Scotland’s strand. |
A’ for our Rightfu’ King. 4 |
Note 1. To know her was to love her.—Samuel Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 1. [back] |
Note 2. I weigh the man, not his title; ’t is not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherly: The Plaindealer, act i. sc. 1. [back] |
Note 3. See Southerne, Quotation 2. [back] |
Note 4. This ballad first appeared in Johnson’s “Museum,” 1796. Sir Walter Scott was never tired of hearing it sung. [back] |