Poem by Robert Burns

The First Kiss at Parting

Humid seal of soft affections,
  	Tenderest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
  	Love’s first snowdrop, virgin kiss!

Speaking silence, dumb confession,
  	Passion’s birth, and infants’ play,
Dove-like fondness, chaste concession,
  	Glowing dawn of future day!

Sorrowing joy, adieu’s last action,
  	(Lingering lips must now disjoin);
What words can ever speak affection
  	So thrilling and sincere as thine?

1. I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
2. Blythe Was She
3. The Flowery Banks of Cree
4. The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea)
5. Farewell to Ballochmyle

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