Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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Song—Handsome Nell
Tune—“I am a man unmarried.”
Once I lov’d a bonie lass, Ay, and I love her still; And whilst that virtue warms my breast, I’ll love my handsome Nell.
As bonie lasses I hae seen, And mony full as braw; But, for a modest gracefu’ mein, The like I never saw.
A bonie lass, I will confess, Is pleasant to the e’e; But, without some better qualities, She’s no a lass for me.
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