204. Song-Love in the Guise of Friendship. 1788. Burns, Robert. 1909-14. Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics

Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

204. Song—Love in the Guise of Friendship


YOUR friendship much can make me blest,
O why that bliss destroy!
Why urge the only, one request
You know I will deny!

Your thought, if Love must harbour there,	5
Conceal it in that thought;
Nor cause me from my bosom tear
The very friend I sought.