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title: "Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
location: "Dumfries"
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/mallys-meek-mallys-sweet/"
---

# Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet

## Poem
*Chorus*  
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet,  
Mally’s modest and discreet;  
Mally’s rare, Mally’s fair,  
Mally’s every way complete.

As I was walking up the street,  
A barefit maid I chanc’d to meet;  
But O the road was very hard  
For that fair maiden’s tender feet.

*Chorus*  
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet,  
Mally’s modest and discreet;  
Mally’s rare, Mally’s fair,  
Mally’s every way complete.

It were mair meet that those fine feet  
Were weel laced up in silken shoon;  
An’ ’twere more fit that she should sit  
Within yon chariot gilt aboon,

*Chorus*  
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet,  
Mally’s modest and discreet;  
Mally’s rare, Mally’s fair,  
Mally’s every way complete.

Her yellow hair, beyond compare,  
Comes trinklin down her swan-like neck,  
And her two eyes, like stars in skies,  
Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck,

*Chorus*  
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet,  
Mally’s modest and discreet;  
Mally’s rare, Mally’s fair,  
Mally’s every way complete.

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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/mallys-meek-mallys-sweet/