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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

VIII. Wedded Love

My Wife ’s a Winsome Wee Thing

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

SHE is a winsome wee thing,

She is a handsome wee thing,

She is a bonnie wee thing,

This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

I never saw a fairer,

I never lo’ed a dearer,

And neist my heart I ’ll wear her,

For fear my jewel tine.

She is a winsome wee thing,

She is a handsome wee thing,

She is a bonnie wee thing,

This sweet wife o’ mine.

The warld’s wrack we share o’t,

The wrastle and the care o’t:

Wi’ her I ’ll blythely bear it,

And think my lot divine.