Song - Down the Burn, Davie love

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
433Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

AS down the burn they took their way, And thro’ the flowery dale; His cheek to hers he aft did lay, And love was aye the tale:

With “Mary, when shall we return, Sic pleasure to renew?” Quoth Mary—“Love, I like the burn, And aye shall follow you.”

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