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.