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title: "On Chloris"
subtitle: "Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
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/"
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# On Chloris

### Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn

## Poem
From the white-blossom’d sloe my dear Chloris requested  
A sprig, her fair breast to adorn:  
No, by Heavens! I exclaim’d, let me perish, if ever  
I plant in that bosom a thorn!

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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/on-chloris/