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Song—Lovely Polly Stewart

by Robert Burns, 1791

Chorus.—o lovely Polly Stewart,
  O charming Polly Stewart,
There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May,
  That's half so fair as thou art!

The flower it blaws, it fades, it fa's,
  And art can ne'er renew it;
But worth and truth, eternal youth
  Will gie to Polly Stewart,
    O lovely Polly Stewart, &c.

May he whase arms shall fauld thy charms
  Possess a leal and true heart!
To him be given to ken the heaven
  He grasps in Polly Stewart!
    O lovely Polly Stewart, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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