Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

268 . Song—I Love my Love in Secret

MY Sandy gied to me a ring,

Was a’ beset wi’ diamonds fine;

But I gied him a far better thing,

I gied my heart in pledge o’ his ring.

Chorus.—My Sandy O, my Sandy O,

My bonie, bonie Sandy O;

Tho’ the love that I owe

To thee I dare na show,

Yet I love my love in secret, my Sandy O.

My Sandy brak a piece o’ gowd,

While down his cheeks the saut tears row’d;

He took a hauf, and gied it to me,

And I’ll keep it till the hour I die.

My Sand O, &c.