A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1793 · Song

Deluded Swain, the Pleasure


Tune ·  The Collier’s Dochter

Deluded swain, the pleasureThe fickle Fair can give thee,Is but a fairy treasure,Thy hopes will soon deceive thee:The billows on the ocean,The breezes idly roaming,The cloud’s uncertain motion,They are but types of Woman.
O art thou not asham’dTo doat upon a feature?If Man thou wouldst be nam’d,Despise the silly creature.Go, find an honest fellow,Good claret set before thee,Hold on till thou art mellow,And then to bed in glory!
Year
1793
Form
Song
Location
Dumfries
Tune
The Collier’s Dochter
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns