Lines to an Old Sweetheart
by Robert Burns
(Poems About Friends and Ex-Lovers)
by Malcolm
(West Sussex, U.K)
Poems About Friends and Ex-LoversLines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
ONCE fondly loved, and still remembered dear,
Sweet early object of my youthful vows,
Accept this mark of friendship, warm, sincere,
Friendship! 'tis all cold duty now allows.
And when you read the simple artless rhymes,
One friendly sigh for him, he asks no more,
Who, distant, burns in flaming torrid climes,
Or haply lies beneath the Atlantic roar.
