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title: "Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1793"
tune: "The Quaker’s Wife"
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/thine-am-i-my-faithful-fair/"
---

# Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair

## Song
Thine am I, my faithful Fair,  
Thine, my lovely Nancy;  
Ev’ry pulse along my veins,  
Ev’ry roving fancy.  
To thy bosom lay my heart,  
There to throb and languish;  
Tho’ despair had wrung its core,  
That would heal its anguish.

Take away those rosy lips,  
Rich with balmy treasure;  
Turn away thine eyes of love,  
Lest I die with pleasure!  
What is life when wanting Love?  
Night without a morning:  
Love’s the cloudless summer sun,  
Nature gay adorning.

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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/thine-am-i-my-faithful-fair/