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Song—It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face

by Robert Burns, 1788

It is na, Jean, thy bonie face,
  Nor shape that I admire;
Altho' thy beauty and thy grace
  Might weel awauk desire.

Something, in ilka part o' thee,
  To praise, to love, I find,
But dear as is thy form to me,
  Still dearer is thy mind.

Nae mair ungenerous wish I hae,
  Nor stronger in my breast,
Than, if I canna make thee sae,
  At least to see thee blest.

Content am I, if heaven shall give
  But happiness, to thee;
And as wi' thee I'd wish to live,
  For thee I'd bear to die.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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