Robert Burns


On Miss Jessy Lewars


Written in pencil on the back of a 
Menagerie Bill

TALK not to me of savages
	From Afric’s burning sun,
No savage e’er could rend my heart,
	As, Jessy, thou hast done.

But Jessy’s lovely hand in mine,
	A mutual faith to plight,
Not ev’n to view the heavenly choir
	Would be so blest a sight.

1796




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