Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 198. Song—Braving Angry Winer’s Storms |
| | | | | Tune—“Neil Gow’s Lament for Abercairny.” |
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| WHERE, braving angry winter’s storms, | |
| The lofty Ochils rise, | |
| Far in their shade my Peggy’s charms | |
| First blest my wondering eyes; | |
| As one who by some savage stream | 5 |
| A lonely gem surveys, | |
| Astonish’d, doubly marks it beam | |
| With art’s most polish’d blaze. | |
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| Blest be the wild, sequester’d shade, | |
| And blest the day and hour, | 10 |
| Where Peggy’s charms I first survey’d, | |
| When first I felt their pow’r! | |
| The tyrant Death, with grim control, | |
| May seize my fleeting breath; | |
| But tearing Peggy from my soul | 15 |
| Must be a stronger death. | |
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