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Song—I Love my Love in Secret

by Robert Burns, 1789

My Sandy gied to me a ring,
Was a' beset wi' diamonds fine;
But i gied him a far better thing,
I gied my heart in pledge o' his ring.

Chorus.—my Sandy O, my Sandy O,
  My bonie, bonie Sandy O;
  Tho' the love that I owe
  To thee I dare na show,
Yet i love my love in secret, my Sandy O.

My Sandy brak a piece o' gowd,
While down his cheeks the saut tears row'd;
He took a hauf, and gied it to me,
And I'll keep it till the hour I die.
  My Sand O, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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