<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506524" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lass Of Cessnock Banks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells, <br> Could I describe her shape and mien! <br>Our lasses a' she far excels--- <br> An she has twa sparkling, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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 flower-reviving rains are past--- <br> An she has twa sparkling, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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, rogueish 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 rogueish 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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506524" data-title="The Lass Of Cessnock Banks de Robert Burns" data-description="On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells, Could I describe her shape and mien! Our lasses a' she far excels--- An she has twa sparkling, rogueish een! She's sweeter than the morning dawn, When rising Phoebus first is seen, And dew-drops twinkle..."></div> </div> </div>

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