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Song—How lang and dreary is the night

by Robert Burns, 1794

How lang and dreary is the night
  When i am frae my Dearie;
I restless lie frae e'en to morn
  Though i were ne'er sae weary.

Chorus.—for oh, her lanely nights are lang!
  And oh, her dreams are eerie;
And oh, her window'd heart is sair,
  That's absent frae her Dearie!

When i think on the lightsome days
  I spent wi' thee, my Dearie;
And now what seas between us roar,
  How can I be but eerie?
        For oh, &c.

How slow ye move, ye heavy hours;
  The joyless day how dreary:
It was na sae ye glinted by,
  When i was wi' my Dearie!
        For oh, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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