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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

473 . On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn

FROM the white-blossom’d sloe my dear Chloris requested

A sprig, her fair breast to adorn:

No, by Heavens! I exclaim’d, let me perish, if ever

I plant in that bosom a thorn!