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title: "I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1788"
location: "Mossgiel"
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-reign-in-jeanies-bosom/"
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# I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom

## Poem
Louis, what reck I by thee,  
Or Geordie on his ocean?  
Dyvor, beggar louns to me,  
I reign in Jeanie’s bosom!

Let her crown my love her law,  
And in her breast enthrone me,  
Kings and nations—swith awa’!  
Reif randies, I disown ye!

It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face

It is na, Jean, thy bonie face,  
Nor shape that I admire;  
Altho’ thy beauty and thy grace  
Might weel awauk desire.

Something, in ilka part o’ thee,  
To praise, to love, I find,  
But dear as is thy form to me,  
Still dearer is thy mind.

Nae mair ungenerous wish I hae,  
Nor stronger in my breast,  
Than, if I canna make thee sae,  
At least to see thee blest.

Content am I, if heaven shall give  
But happiness, to thee;  
And as wi’ thee I’d wish to live,  
For thee I’d bear to die.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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