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title: "Beware o’ Bonie Ann"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1789"
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/beware-o-bonie-ann/"
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# Beware o’ Bonie Ann

## Poem
Ye gallants bright, I rede you right,  
Beware o’ bonie Ann;  
Her comely face sae fu’ o’ grace,  
Your heart she will trepan:  
Her een sae bright, like stars by night,  
Her skin sae like the swan;  
Sae jimply lac’d her genty waist,  
That sweetly ye might span.

Youth, Grace, and Love attendant move,  
And pleasure leads the van:  
In a’ their charms, and conquering arms,  
They wait on bonie Ann.  
The captive bands may chain the hands,  
But love enslaves the man:  
Ye gallants braw, I rede you a’,  
Beware o’ bonie Ann!

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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/beware-o-bonie-ann/