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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. Love’s Beginnings

“Dinna ask me”

John Dunlop (1755–1820)

O, DINNA ask me gin I lo’e ye:

Troth, I daurna tell!

Dinna ask me gin I lo’e ye,—

Ask it o’ yoursel’.

O, dinna look sae sair at me,

For weel ye ken me true;

O, gin ye look sae sair at me,

I daurna look at you.

When ye gang to yon braw braw town,

And bonnier lassies see,

O, dinna, Jamie, look at them,

Lest ye should mind na me.

For I could never bide the lass

That ye ’d lo’e mair than me;

And O, I ’m sure my heart wad brak,

Gin ye ’d prove fause to me!