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The Correspondence Between Burns and Clarinda, With a Memoir of Mrs M'lehose (clarinda) Ed. by W.c. M'lehose
The Correspondence Between Burns and Clarinda With a Memoir of Mrs M'lehose Ed by Wc M'lehose - clarinda Author:Robert Burns General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LETTER X. CLARINDA To SYLVANDER. Thursday, Jan. [3d] 1788. I got your lines: they are " in kind!" I can't but laugh at my presumption in pretending to send my poor ones to you! but it was to amuse myself. At this season, when others are joyous, [ am the reverse. I have no near relations ; and while others are with theirs, I sit alone, musing upon several of mine with whom I used to be -- now gone to the land of forgetfulness. You have put me in a rhyming humour. The moment I read yours, I wrote the following lines -- Talk not of Love ! it gives me pain -- For Love has been my foe : He bound me in an iron chain ! And plunged me deep in woe ! But Friendship's pure and lasting joys My heart was form'd to prove -- The worthy object be of those, But never talk of Love. The " Hand of Friendship " I accept -- May Honour be our guard ! Virtue our intercourse direct, Her smiles our dear reward ! But I wish to know (in sober prose) how your leg is ? I would have inquired sooner had I known it would have been acceptable. Miss N. informs me now and then ; but I have not seen her dear face for some time. Do you think you could venture this length in a coach, without hurting yourself? I go out of town the beginning of the week, for a few days. I wish you could come tomorrow or Saturday. I long for a conversation with you, and lameness of body won't hinder that. 'Tis really curious -- so much fun passing between two persons who saw one another only once! Say if you think you dare venture; -- only let the coachman be " adorned with sobriety." Adieu ! Believe me, (on my simple word,) Yo...« less