All good attend my Valentine!

St. Valentine’s Day, 1851.

T. B. Macaulay.

Very tender are Burns’ verses to his ladie loves. For instance:—

Oh! were I in the wildest waste,

Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,

The desert were a paradise

If thou wert there, if thou wert there;

Or, were I monarch of the globe,

Wi’ thee to reign, wi’ thee to reign,