Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Bonny Lesley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
Bonny Lesley.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
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