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title: "There Was a Bonie Lass"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
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/there-was-a-bonie-lass/"
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# There Was a Bonie Lass

## Poem
There was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass,  
And she lo’ed her bonie laddie dear;  
Till War’s loud alarms tore her laddie frae her arms,  
Wi’ mony a sigh and tear.  
Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,  
He still was a stranger to fear;  
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,  
But the bonie lass he lo’ed sae dear.

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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/there-was-a-bonie-lass/