Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 546. Song—Jockie’s taen the parting Kiss |
| | | | | Air—“Bonie lass tak a man.” |
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| JOCKEY’S taen the parting kiss, | |
| O’er the mountains he is gane, | |
| And with him is a’ my bliss, | |
| Nought but griefs with me remain, | |
| Spare my Love, ye winds that blaw, | 5 |
| Plashy sleets and beating rain! | |
| Spare my Love, thou feath’ry snaw, | |
| Drifting o’er the frozen plain! | |
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| When the shades of evening creep | |
| O’er the day’s fair, gladsome e’e, | 10 |
| Sound and safely may he sleep, | |
| Sweetly blythe his waukening be. | |
| He will think on her he loves, | |
| Fondly he’ll repeat her name; | |
| For where’er he distant roves, | 15 |
| Jockey’s heart is still the same. | |
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