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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506471" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Song of Similes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tune - 'If he be a Butcher neat and trim.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;<br>Could I describe her shape and mein;<br>Our lasses a' she far excels,<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She's sweeter than the morning dawn,<br>When rising Phoebus first is seen,<br>And dew-drops twinkle o'er the lawn;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She's stately like yon youthful ash,<br>That grows the cowslip braes between,<br>And drinks the stream with vigour fresh;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She's spotless like the flow'ring thorn,<br>With flow'rs so white and leaves so green,<br>When purest in the dewy morn;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her looks are like the vernal May,<br>When ev'ning Phoebus shines serene,<br>While birds rejoice on every spray;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her hair is like the curling mist,<br>That climbs the mountain-sides at e'en,<br>When flow'r-reviving rains are past;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her forehead's like the show'ry bow,<br>When gleaming sunbeams intervene<br>And gild the distant mountain's brow;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her cheeks are like yon crimson gem,<br>The pride of all the flowery scene,<br>Just opening on its thorny stem;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her bosom's like the nightly snow,<br>When pale the morning rises keen,<br>While hid the murm'ring streamlets flow;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her lips are like yon cherries ripe,<br>That sunny walls from Boreas screen;<br>They tempt the taste and charm the sight;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her teeth are like a flock of sheep,<br>With fleeces newly washen clean,<br>That slowly mount the rising steep;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her breath is like the fragrant breeze,<br>That gently stirs the blossom'd bean,<br>When Phoebus sinks behind the seas;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her voice is like the ev'ning thrush,<br>That sings on Cessnock banks unseen,<br>While his mate sits nestling in the bush;<br>An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it's not her air, her form, her face,<br>Tho' matching beauty's fabled queen;<br>'Tis the mind that shines in ev'ry grace,<br>An' chiefly in her roguish een.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q>
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Tune - 'If he be a Butcher neat and trim.'

On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
Could I describe her shape and mein;
Our lasses a' she far excels,
An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.

She's sweeter than the morning dawn,
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