Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | III. Love’s Beginnings | | “Dinna ask me” | | John Dunlop (1755–1820) |
| | | O, DINNA ask me gin I lo’e ye: | |
| Troth, I daurna tell! | |
| Dinna ask me gin I lo’e ye,— | |
| Ask it o’ yoursel’. | |
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| O, dinna look sae sair at me, | 5 |
| For weel ye ken me true; | |
| O, gin ye look sae sair at me, | |
| I daurna look at you. | |
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| When ye gang to yon braw braw town, | |
| And bonnier lassies see, | 10 |
| O, dinna, Jamie, look at them, | |
| Lest ye should mind na me. | |
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| For I could never bide the lass | |
| That ye ’d lo’e mair than me; | |
| And O, I ’m sure my heart wad brak, | 15 |
| Gin ye ’d prove fause to me! | | | | |
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