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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. Love’s Beginnings

“Comin’ through the rye”

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

GIN a body meet a body

Comin’ through the rye,

Gin a body kiss a body,

Need a body cry?

Every lassie has her laddie,—

Ne’er a ane hae I;

Yet a’ the lads they smile at me

When comin’ through the rye.

Amang the train there is a swain

I dearly lo’e mysel’;

But whaur his hame, or what his name,

I dinna care to tell.

Gin a body meet a body

Comin’ frae the town,

Gin a body greet a body,

Need a body frown?

Every lassie has her laddie,—

Ne’er a ane hae I;

Yet a’ the lads they smile at me

When comin’ through the rye.

Amang the train there is a swain

I dearly lo’e mysel’;

But whaur his hame, or what his name,

I dinna care to tell.