I’ve read several versions of this poem by Robert Burns and have no idea which is the original, but I’m not sure it matters. It was written more than two hundred years ago and, as love poems go, I think it’s a classic.
A Red, Red Rose
O, my love’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June.
O, my love’s like a melody
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
And I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.And fare thee well, my only love!
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my love,
Tho’ it ware ten thousand mile.~ Robert Burns
And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.
Don’t you love that line? Writers always search for a fresh new way to say something like “until the end of time.” Burns achieved it with “the sands o’ life.”
He even looks like a romantic poet, don’t you think?
XOXO,
Lee
