---
title: "On Chloris Being Ill"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1795"
tune: "Aye wauken O"
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/on-chloris-being-ill/"
---

# On Chloris Being Ill

## Song
*Chorus*  
Long, long the night,  
Heavy comes the morrow  
While my soul’s delight  
Is on her bed of sorrow.

Can I cease to care?  
Can I cease to languish,  
While my darling Fair  
Is on the couch of anguish?

*Chorus*  
Long, long the night,  
Heavy comes the morrow  
While my soul’s delight  
Is on her bed of sorrow.

Ev’ry hope is fled,  
Ev’ry fear is terror,  
Slumber ev’n I dread,  
Ev’ry dream is horror.

*Chorus*  
Long, long the night,  
Heavy comes the morrow  
While my soul’s delight  
Is on her bed of sorrow.

Hear me, Powers Divine!  
Oh, in pity, hear me!  
Take aught else of mine,  
But my Chloris spare me!

*Chorus*  
Long, long the night,  
Heavy comes the morrow  
While my soul’s delight  
Is on her bed of sorrow.

---

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