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[Page 224]
SONG,
COMPOSED IN AUGUST.
Tune, I had a horse, I had nae mair.
I.
1 Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns
2 Bring Autumn's pleasant weather;
[Page 225]3 And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
4 Amang the blooming heather:
5 Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain,
6 Delights the weary Farmer;
7 And the moon shines bright, when I rove at night,
8 To muse upon my Charmer.
II.
9 The Partridge loves the fruitful fells;
10 The Plover loves the mountains;
11 The Woodcock haunts the lonely dells;
12 The soaring Hern the fountains:
13 Thro' lofty groves, the Cushat roves,
14 The path of man to shun it;
15 The hazel bush o'erhangs the Thrush,
16 The spreading thorn the Linnet.
III.
17 Thus ev'ry kind their pleasure find,
18 The savage and the tender;
19 Some social join, and leagues combine;
20 Some solitary wander:
[Page 226]21 Avaunt, away! the cruel sway,
22 Tyrannic man's dominion;
23 The Sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry,
24 The flutt'ring, gory pinion!
IV.
25 But PEGGY dear, the ev'ning's clear,
26 Thick flies the skimming Swallow;
27 The sky is blue, the fields in view,
28 All fading-green and yellow:
29 Come let us stray our gladsome way,
30 And view the charms of Nature;
31 The rustling corn, the fruited thorn,
32 And ev'ry happy creature.
V.
33 We'll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
34 Till the silent moon shine clearly;
35 I'll grasp thy waist, and fondly prest,
36 Swear how I love thee dearly:
37 Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
38 Not Autumn to the Farmer,
39 So dear can be, as thou to me,
40 My fair, my lovely Charmer!
Source edition
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURNS. Kilmarnock: printed by John Wilson, M,DCC,LXXXVI., 1786, pp. 224-226. 240p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T91548) (Page images digitized by National Library of Scotland.)
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