Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 206. Song—Clarina, Mistress of my Soul |
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| CLARINDA, mistres of my soul, | |
| The measur’d time is run! | |
| The wretch beneath the dreary pole | |
| So marks his latest sun. | |
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| To what dark cave of frozen night | 5 |
| Shall poor Sylvander hie; | |
| Depriv’d of thee, his life and light, | |
| The sun of all his joy? | |
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| We part—but by these precious drops, | |
| That fill thy lovely eyes, | 10 |
| No other light shall guide my steps, | |
| Till thy bright beams arise! | |
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| She, the fair sun of all her sex, | |
| Has blest my glorious day; | |
| And shall a glimmering planet fix | 15 |
| My worship to its ray? | |
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