Song - Fragment - No cold approach

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
381Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

NO cold approach, no altered mien, Just what would make suspicion start; No pause the dire extremes between, He made me blest—and broke my heart.

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