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title: "Stay My Charmer"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1788"
tune: "An gille dubh ciar-dhubh"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/stay-my-charmer/"
---

# Stay My Charmer

## Song
Stay my charmer, can you leave me?  
Cruel, cruel to deceive me;  
Well you know how much you grieve me;  
Cruel charmer, can you go!  
Cruel charmer, can you go!

By my love so ill-requited,  
By the faith you fondly plighted,  
By the pangs of lovers slighted,  
Do not, do not liave me so!  
Do not, do not leave me so!

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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/stay-my-charmer/