UNPUBLISHED POEM BY BURNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11854, 4 January 1902, Page 6 (Supplement)

UNPUBLISHED POEM BY BURNS.

The following verses were recently found among some papers belonging to the late Mrs. Berringtoni who died in 1885. During a great part of her life Mrs. Berrington lived in Monmouthshire, at no great distance from Itton Court, the home of Mrs. ! Currie, to whom, according to the endorsement on the manuscript, the verses were addressed by Burns:'": • <■: < Oh look na. young Lassie, sae softly and sweetly! . - ; . Oh smile na, young Lassie, sae sweetly on ■-■ ■ me! -V % There's nought waur to bear than the milci , glance of; pity , When grief swells the heart and the tear ' Wins the e'e. Just such was the glance of my bonnie lost ■ ■ ; Nancy, , ''■-'' : - . Just such was the glance that once brightened her e'e; But lost is the smile sae impressed on my fancy. And cauld is the heart that sae dear was to ;■ me. , Ilka wee flow'ret we grieve to see blighted, Cow'ring and with'ring in frost nippet plain; . The naist turn of Spring shall awauken their beauty, : '' • , ' ■' __ But ne'er can Spring wauken my Nancy .;.; again.... And was she less fair than the flow'rs of the garden ? , Was she less sweet than, the blossoms of May? , Oh, was na her cheek like the rose and the lily, Like the Son's waving glance at the closing ■. o' day? „,- .„ ''; I Macmillan 8. j :-== - ' ! Soft, Fah!, Delicate Skin.—A clear and healthy complexion produced by using Rowland's Kalidok, the most soothing, healing, curative and refreshing preparation, and warranted harmless to tho most delicate skin. It prevents and removes Freckles, Tan, Sunburn, ' Redness, Roughness, .heals Cutaneous Eruptions, Irritation, Stings of Insects, Eczema, Burns, imparts a luxuriant beauty to the complexion, and arrays the neck, hands, and arms in matchless whiteness, unobtainable by any other means Ask stores and chemiiits for Rowland's Kaltdob, and avoid poisonous imitations. .^