Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Robert Burns
“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”
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Context: But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
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.
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But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.
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My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —”
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Context: From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone
Robert Burns
(1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
(1709–1773) British politician
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
