Robert Burns,
The Sailor's Tragedy
(1825)
“ And pledging aft to meet again,We tore ourselves asunder,But ohǃ fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower so early:Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay,That raps my Highland MaryːO pale, pale now those rosy lips,I aft hae kiss’d sae fondly! ”
