---
title: "Robin Shure in Hairst"
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/robin-shure-in-hairst/"
---

# Robin Shure in Hairst

## Poem
*Chorus*  
Robin shure in hairst,  
I shure wi’ him.  
Fient a heuk had I,  
Yet I stack by him.

I gaed up to Dunse,  
To warp a wab o’ plaiden,  
At his daddie’s yett,  
Wha met me but Robin:

*Chorus*  
Robin shure in hairst,  
I shure wi’ him.  
Fient a heuk had I,  
Yet I stack by him.

Was na Robin bauld,  
Tho’ I was a cotter,  
Play’d me sic a trick,  
An’ me the El’er’s dochter!

*Chorus*  
Robin shure in hairst,  
I shure wi’ him.  
Fient a heuk had I,  
Yet I stack by him.

Robin promis’d me  
A’ my winter vittle;  
Fient haet he had but three  
Guse-feathers and a whittle!

*Chorus*  
Robin shure in hairst,  
I shure wi’ him.  
Fient a heuk had I,  
Yet I stack by him.

---

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/robin-shure-in-hairst/