Classic Poem

THE PRESERVATIVE OF LOVE AND BEAUTY .

Confess thy love, fair blushing maid;
For since thine eyes consenting,
Thy safter thoughts are a' betray'd,
And nasays no worth tenting.
Why aims thou to oppose thy mind,
With words thy wish denying?
Since nature made thee to be kind,
Reason allows complying.

Nature and reason's joint consent
Make love a sacred blessing;
Then happily that time is spent,
That 's war'd on kind caressing.
Come then, my Katie, to my arms,
I 'll be na mair a rover,
But find out heav'n in a' thy charms,
And prove a faithful lover.

SHE .

What you design by nature's law,
Is fleeting inclination;
That willy-wisp bewilds us a'
By its infatuation:
When that gaes out, caresses tire,
And love 's nae mair in season;
Syne weakly we blaw up the fire,
With all our boasted reason.

HE .

The beauties of inferior cast
May start this just reflection;
But charms like thine man always last,
Where wit has the protection.
Virtue and wit, like April rays,
Make beauty rise the sweeter;
The langer then on thee I gaze,
My love will grow completer.