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Song—Love in the Guise of Friendship

by Robert Burns, 1788

Your friendship much can make me blest,
  O why that bliss destroy!
Why urge the only, one request
  You know I will deny!

Your thought, if Love must harbour there,
  Conceal it in that thought;
Nor cause me from my bosom tear
  The very friend I sought.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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