Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 256. Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann |
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| YE gallants bright, I rede you right, | |
| Beware o’ bonie Ann; | |
| Her comely face sae fu’ o’ grace, | |
| Your heart she will trepan: | |
| Her een sae bright, like stars by night, | 5 |
| Her skin sae like the swan; | |
| Sae jimply lac’d her genty waist, | |
| That sweetly ye might span. | |
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| Youth, Grace, and Love attendant move, | |
| And pleasure leads the van: | 10 |
| In a’ their charms, and conquering arms, | |
| They wait on bonie Ann. | |
| The captive bands may chain the hands, | |
| But love enslaves the man: | |
| Ye gallants braw, I rede you a’, | 15 |
| Beware o’ bonie Ann! | |
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