CLXVI.
Reading edition
ANNA, THY CHARMS.
Tune—“Bonnie Mary.”
[The heroine of this short, sweet song is unknown: it was inserted in the third edition of his Poems.]
Anna, thy charms my bosom fire, And waste my soul with care; But ah! how bootless to admire, When fated to despair! Yet in thy presence, lovely fair, To hope may be forgiv’n; For sure ’twere impious to despair, So much in sight of Heav’n.