333. Song—Lovely Polly Stewart

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333. Song—Lovely Polly Stewart by Robert Burns

 Chorus.—O lovely Polly Stewart,
 O charming Polly Stewart,
There’s ne’er a flower that blooms in May,
 That’s half so fair as thou art!


THE FLOWER it blaws, it fades, it fa’s,
 And art can ne’er renew it;
But worth and truth, eternal youth
 Will gie to Polly Stewart,
 O lovely Polly Stewart, &c.


May he whase arms shall fauld thy charms
 Possess a leal and true heart!
To him be given to ken the heaven
 He grasps in Polly Stewart!
 O lovely Polly Stewart, &c.

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