Love

The Belles Of Mauchline

by Robert Burns 1759–1796

From Poems and Songs, 1784

Love

In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles,
The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a’;
Their carriage and dress, a stranger would guess,
In Lon’on or Paris, they’d gotten it a’.

Miss Miller is fine, Miss Markland’s divine,
Miss Smith she has wit, and Miss Betty is braw:
There’s beauty and fortune to get wi’ Miss Morton,
But Armour’s the jewel for me o’ them a’.

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Burns, Robert. “The Belles Of Mauchline.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/53/.

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