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Song—Anna, thy Charms

by Robert Burns, 1788

Anna, thy charms my bosom fire,
  And waste my soul with care;
But ah! how bootless to admire,
  When fated to despair!

Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair,
  To hope may be forgiven;
For sure 'twere impious to despair
  So much in sight of heaven.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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