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title: "Altho’ He Has Left Me"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1791"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/altho-he-has-left-me/"
---

# Altho’ He Has Left Me

## Poem
Altho’ he has left me for greed o’ the siller,  
I dinna envy him the gains he can win;  
I rather wad bear a’ the lade o’ my sorrow,  
Than ever hae acted sae faithless to him.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/altho-he-has-left-me/