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title: "My Eppie Adair"
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/my-eppie-adair/"
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# My Eppie Adair

## Poem
*Chorus*  
An’ O my Eppie, my jewel, my Eppie,  
Wha wad na be happy wi’ Eppie Adair?

By love, and by beauty, by law, and by duty,  
I swear to be true to my Eppie Adair!  
By love, and by beauty, by law, and by duty,  
I swear to be true to my Eppie Adair!  
And O my Eppie, &c.

A’ pleasure exile me, dishonour defile me,  
If e’er I beguile ye, my Eppie Adair!  
A’ pleasure exile me, dishonour defile me,  
If e’er I beguile thee, my Eppie Adair!  
And O my Eppie, &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/my-eppie-adair/