CCXXXIX.
O WHA IS SHE THAT LOVES ME.
Tune—“Morag.”
[“This song,” says Sir Harris Nicolas, “is said, in Thomson’s collection, to have been written for that work by Burns: but it is not included in Mr. Cunningham’s edition.” If sir Harris would be so good as to look at page 245; vol. V., of Cunningham’s edition of Burns, he will find the song; and if he will look at page 28, and page 193 of vol. III., of his own edition, he will find that he has not committed the error of which he accuses his fellow-editor, for he has inserted the same song twice. The same may be said of the song to Chloris, which Sir Harris has printed at page 312, vol. II,. and at page 189, vol. III., and of “Ae day a braw wooer came down the lang glen,” which appears both at page 224 of vol. II., and at page 183 of vol, III.]
I.
O wha is she that lo’es me,
And has my heart a-keeping?
O sweet is she that lo’es me,
As dews of simmer weeping,
In tears the rosebuds steeping!
O that’s the lassie of my heart,
My lassie ever dearer;
O that’s the queen of womankind,
And ne’er a ane to peer her.
II.
If thou shalt meet a lassie
In grace and beauty charming,
That e’en thy chosen lassie,
Erewhile thy breast sae warming
Had ne’er sic powers alarming.