To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries. With Johnson'S 'Musical Museum.'
By Robert Burns
Thine be the volumes, Jessy fair, And with them take the Poet's prayer; That fate may in her fairest page, With every kindliest, best presage Of future bliss, enrol thy name: With native worth and spotless fame, And wakeful caution still aware Of ill, but chief, man's felon snare; All blameless joys on earth we find, And all the treasures of the mind, These be thy guardian and reward; So prays thy faithful friend, The Bard. June 26, 1796.
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