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KIND ROBIN LOVES ME.
WRITTEN FOR THIS WORK, IN 1829,
BY DAVID VEDDER, ESQ.
The first Stanza and some other lines of the Old Song are
retained.
xtOBiN is my only jo,
Robin has the art to woo ;
So to his suit I mean to how,
Because I ken he lo'es me.
Happy happy was the show'r
That led me to his birken bow'r,
Where first of love I felt the pow'r,
And kenn'd that Robin lo'ed me.
He's tall and comely, frank and free,
Lo'ed by a', and dear to me ;
Wi' him I'd live, wi' him I'd die,
Because my Robin lo'es me.
The ev'ning star is Robin's e'e,
When not a cloud hangs o'er the sea ;
It brightest glows when he's wi' me,
By that I ken he lo'es me.
My titty Jeanie said to me,
His constancy a joke would be,
And I, o'er late, be made to see
That Robin didna lo'e me.
But little kens our bonny Jean
The glamour o' my Robin's een ! —
The starting tear — the vow yestreen,
By these I ken he lo'es me.
When in his bow'r o' summer sweets,
At gloaming he his vow repeats ;
My flutt'ring heart wi' rapture beats,
To think how weel he lo'es me.
The witchery o' Robin's smile
Can sweeten care and lighten toil,
And a' the ills o' life beguile,
Sae lang's I'm sure he lo'es me.
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