A Red, Red Rose

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--Description: Burns R., 18th C, Adoration, Love--

My love is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June :

My love is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in love am I :

And I will love thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun :

And I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only love,

And fare thee weel a while !

And I will come again, my love,

Thou’ it were ten thousand mile.

Robert Burns

--Did You Know:  Burns was also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard.  He was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide.

--Word of the Day: nubilous (NOO-buh-luhs, NYOO-), adjective
Meaning: 1. Cloudy, misty, or foggy.  2. Vague or obscure.
Example: "All of which nubilous musing serves little purpose, except to show that cloud-gazing, as a way of passing time, has appealed to all humanity since the earliest of times."
(Andy Drought; We Really Don't Know Clouds At All; The Herald (Glasgow, UK); Oct 27, 2001.)

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