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Turn again, thou fair Eliza! / Ae kind blink before we part; / Rue on thy despairing lover, / Can'st thou break his faithfu' heart? / Turn again, thou fair Eliza! / If to love thy heart denies, / Oh, in pity hide the sentence / Under friendship's kind disguise!
Thee, sweet maid, hae I offended? / My offence is loving thee; / Can'st thou wreck his peace for ever, / Wha for thine would gladly die? / While the life beats in my bosom, / Thou shalt mix in ilka throe: / Turn again, thou lovely maiden, / Ae sweet smile on me bestow.
Not the bee upon the blossom, / In the pride o' sinny noon; / Not the little sporting fairy, / All beneath the simmer moon; / Not the Minstrel in the moment / Fancy lightens in his e'e, / Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, / That thy presence gies to me.