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title: "Braving Angry Winter’s Storms"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1787"
tune: "Neil Gow’s Lament for Abercairny"
location: "Edinburgh"
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/braving-angry-winters-storms/"
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# Braving Angry Winter’s Storms

## Song
Where, braving angry winter’s storms,  
The lofty Ochils rise,  
Far in their shade my Peggy’s charms  
First blest my wondering eyes;  
As one who by some savage stream  
A lonely gem surveys,  
Astonish’d, doubly marks it beam  
With art’s most polish’d blaze.

Blest be the wild, sequester’d shade,  
And blest the day and hour,  
Where Peggy’s charms I first survey’d,  
When first I felt their pow’r!  
The tyrant Death, with grim control,  
May seize my fleeting breath;  
But tearing Peggy from my soul  
Must be a stronger death.

## Footnotes
1. Of the Edinburgh High School.

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