LL-L "Help needed" 2002.08.20 (10) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: ""Help needed""

> From: "Roman Laryushkin" <puka_2000 at mail.ru>
> Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2002.08.18 (06) [E]
>
> Sandy, Ron,
>
> It is about a man and a woman (boy and girl), and the man goes somewhere
> far away, in the first line he calls her name, if my memory doesen't
> fail me it's Else or Elisabeth.

Found it at last! It's Burns in his finest "Anglo-Scots" mode,
so I don't suppose an English translation is necessary!

FAIR ELIZA

TURN again, thou fair Eliza--
    Ae kind blink before we part!
Rue on thy despairin lover!
    Canst thou brak his faithfu hert?
Turn again, thou fair Eliza;
    If to love thy hert denies,
For pity hide the cruel sentence
    Under friendship's kind disguise!

Thee, dear maid, hae I offended?
    The offence is loving thee;
Canst thou wreck his peace for ever,
    Wha for thine would gladly dee?
While the life beats in my bosom,
    Thou shalt mix in ilka throe:
Turn again, thou lovely maiden--
    Ae sweet smile on me bestow.

Not the bee upon the blossom,
    In the pride o sunny nuin;
Not the little sportin fairy,
    A' beneath the simmer muin;
Not the poet in the moment
    Fancy lichtens in his ee,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
    That thy presence gies to me.

-Robert Burns

ae - one (as a qualifier)
brak - break
hert - heart
hae - have
wha - who
dee - die
ilka - every
nuin - noon
a' - all
simmer muin - summer moon
lichtens - lightens
ee - eye
kens - knows
gies - gives

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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