The complete works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) . my Willie, The Simmer to Nature, my Willie to me. Rest, ye wild storms, in the cave of your slumbers, How your dread howling a lover alarms !Wauken ye breezes, row gently ye billows. And waft my dear laddie ance mair to my oh, if hes faithless, and minds na his Nannie, Flow still between us, thou wide roaring main !May I never see it, may I never trow it. But, dying, believe that my Willies my ain. 152 THE CIvARINDA CORRESPONDENCE. THINE AM I, MY FAITHFUL FAIR. (Written in 1793.) Thine am I, my faithful Fair, Thine, my lovely Na
The complete works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) . my Willie, The Simmer to Nature, my Willie to me. Rest, ye wild storms, in the cave of your slumbers, How your dread howling a lover alarms !Wauken ye breezes, row gently ye billows. And waft my dear laddie ance mair to my oh, if hes faithless, and minds na his Nannie, Flow still between us, thou wide roaring main !May I never see it, may I never trow it. But, dying, believe that my Willies my ain. 152 THE CIvARINDA CORRESPONDENCE. THINE AM I, MY FAITHFUL FAIR. (Written in 1793.) Thine am I, my faithful Fair, Thine, my lovely Nancy ;Evry pulse along my veins, Evry roving thy bosom lay my heart, There to throb and languish ;Tho despair had wrung its core. That would heal its anguish. Take away those rosy lips. Rich with balmy treasure ;Turn away thine eyes of love, Lest I die with pleasure !What is life when wanting Love? Night without a morning :Loves the cloudless summer sun. Nature gay adorning. LEND OF CI^ARINDA CORRESPONDENCE.] I J^etp^i^e (!^A^^i<ndiP^, ©^^.. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BURNS AND GEORGE THOMSON, September, 1792, to Jui,y, 1796. The Correspondence of Bums witli George Thomson, apartfrom its literary and musical importance, is very interestingbecause of the controversy which arose after the death of Burnsconcerning the treatment which Burns received from Thomson,in a commercial sense, and Thomsons excuses for his Douglas, in his edition of the poets works in 1877, says: When our poet had been domiciled in the town of Dum-fries about nine months, and shortly after Volume IV. ofJohnsons Musical Museum had been issued, he received aletter from a stranger to him resident in Edinburgh, solicitinghis aid in supplying verses for a select collection of ScottishMelodies proposed to be published in a superior style, withoriginal symphonies and accompaniments by the best conti-nental composers of music. The writer of that letter was Thomson, principal clerk in the
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