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FAIR ELIZA.

Turn again thou fair Eliza,
Ae kind blink before we part,
Rew on thy despairing lover!
Canst thou break his faithfu’ heart!
Turn again the fair Eliza;
If to love thy heart denies,
For pity hide the cruel sentence,
Under friendship’s kind disguise!

Thee dear maid, hae I offended?
The offence is loving the:
Canst thou wreck his peace for ever,
Wha for thine would gladly die!
While the life beats in my bosom,
Thou shall 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;