Poem by Robert Burns

Written on a Blank Leaf of One of Miss Hannah More’s Works, Which a Lady Had Given Him

THOU flattering mark of friendship kind,
Still may thy pages call to mind
  The dear, the beauteous donor:
Though sweetly female every part,
Yet such a head, and more-the heart
  Does both the sexes honour.
She show’d her taste refined and just
  When she selected thee,
Yet deviating own I must,
  For so approving me.
    But kind still I’ll mind still
      The giver in the gift;
    I’ll bless her and wiss her
      A Friend aboon the lift.

1. I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
2. Blythe Was She
3. Farewell to Ballochmyle
4. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
5. Young Jamie, Pride of A’ the Plain

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