Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 556. Inscription to Jessie Lewars |
| | | | | On a copy of the Scots Musical Museum, in four volumes, presented to her by Burns. |
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| THINE be the volumes, Jessy fair, | |
| And with them take the Poet’s prayer, | |
| That Fate may, in her fairest page, | |
| With ev’ry kindliest, best presage | |
| Of future bliss, enroll thy name: | 5 |
| With native worth and spotless fame, | |
| And wakeful caution, still aware | |
| Of ill—but chief, Man’s felon snare; | |
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| All blameless joys on earth we find, | |
| And all the treasures of the mind— | 10 |
| These be thy guardian and reward; | |
So prays thy faithful friend, the Bard.
DUMFRIES, June 26, 1769. | |
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