A Woman's Hair 1
Works , 1832, vii. 151
Oh! little lock of golden hue
In gently waving ringlet curl'd,
By the dear head on which you grew,
I would not lose you for a world.
Not though a thousand more adorn
The polished brow where once you shone,
Like rays which guild a cloudless sky a
Beneath Columbia's fervid zone.
1806.
| Footnote 1: Ý These lines are preserved in MS. at Newstead, with the following memorandum in Miss Pigot's handwriting: "Copied from the fly-leaf in a vol. of my Burns' books, which is written in pencil by himself." They have hitherto been printed as stanzas 5 and 6 of the lines "To a Lady," etc., p. 212. return to footnote mark |
Footnote a:Ý a cloudless morn... [Ed., 1832] |
