Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | V. Cautions and Complaints | | “Let not woman e’er complain” | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | LET not woman e’er complain | |
| Of inconstancy in love; | |
| Let not woman e’er complain | |
| Fickle man is apt to rove; | |
| Look abroad through Nature’s range, | 5 |
| Nature’s mighty law is change; | |
| Ladies, would it not be strange | |
| Man should then a monster prove? | |
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| Mark the winds, and mark the skies; | |
| Ocean’s ebb and ocean’s flow; | 10 |
| Sun and moon but set to rise, | |
| Round and round the seasons go. | |
| Why then ask of silly man, | |
| To oppose great Nature’s plan? | |
| We ’ll be constant while we can,— | 15 |
| You can be no more, you know. | | | | |
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