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title: "Lovely Polly Stewart"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1791"
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/lovely-polly-stewart/"
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# Lovely Polly Stewart

## Poem
*Chorus*  
O lovely Polly Stewart,  
O charming Polly Stewart,  
There’s ne’er a flower that blooms in May,  
That’s half so fair as thou art!

The flower it blaws, it fades, it fa’s,  
And art can ne’er renew it;  
But worth and truth, eternal youth  
Will gie to Polly Stewart,

*Chorus*  
O lovely Polly Stewart,  
O charming Polly Stewart,  
There’s ne’er a flower that blooms in May,  
That’s half so fair as thou art!

May he whase arms shall fauld thy charms  
Possess a leal and true heart!  
To him be given to ken the heaven  
He grasps in Polly Stewart!

*Chorus*  
O lovely Polly Stewart,  
O charming Polly Stewart,  
There’s ne’er a flower that blooms in May,  
That’s half so fair as thou art!

## Footnotes
1. Bacon was the name of a presumably intrusive host. The lines are said to have “afforded much amusement.”—Lang

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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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