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title: "I Love My Love in Secret"
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/i-love-my-love-in-secret/"
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# I Love My Love in Secret

## Poem
My Sandy gied to me a ring,  
Was a’ beset wi’ diamonds fine;  
But I gied him a far better thing,  
I gied my heart in pledge o’ his ring.

*Chorus*  
My Sandy O, my Sandy O,  
My bonie, bonie Sandy O;  
Tho’ the love that I owe  
To thee I dare na show,  
Yet I love my love in secret, my Sandy O.

My Sandy brak a piece o’ gowd,  
While down his cheeks the saut tears row’d;  
He took a hauf, and gied it to me,  
And I’ll keep it till the hour I die.  
My Sand O, &c.

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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/i-love-my-love-in-secret/