But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns · From "Ae Fond Kiss," his farewell to Agnes Maclehose, sent in a letter of December 1791.
Robert Burns · From "Ae Fond Kiss," his farewell to Agnes Maclehose, sent in a letter of December 1791.
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Robert Burns · The source reads: “O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June:” · The opening of "A Red, Red Rose," the best known lines in Scots verse, written in 1794 to an old tune; Luve is love.
Robert Burns · The source reads: “Had we never lov'd sae kindly, / Had we never lov'd sae blindly, / Never met—or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted.” · The middle stanza of "Ae Fond Kiss," his farewell to Agnes Maclehose, written in 1791 as she sailed for Jamaica; the familiar form turns the Scots "sae" to "so."
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