...was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met, — or never parted, We had...and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Tliinc be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, enjoyment, lore, and pleasure. Ae fond kiss, and then we...

...whole of song literature, which correctly expresses the position of the singer and the heroine : " Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted." Notably his songs to Clarinda and Cliloris were love messages for their eyes and hearts only. The song,...

...— Naething could resist my Nancy : But to sec her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been brokeu-heartad. Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest I Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine...

...'11 ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy : But to see her was to love her ; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never loved...weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou first and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure ! Ae fond...

...for there was more than music leading him on as he rendered the last verse of his second song — " ' Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest — Fare thee...pleasure ! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever — Ae farewell, alas ! for ever ! Deep in heart-wrung tears I pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll...

...blame my partial fancy — Naething conld resist my Nancy : But to see her was to love her, Love hnt her, and love for ever. Had we never loved sae kindly,...loved sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, iVe had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare thee weel, thon first and fairest! Faro theo weel, thou best...

...but which have in them a depth of poetic 15 quality such as resides in no verse of Byron's own — 'Had we never loved sae kindly. Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.' 10 But a whole poem of that quality Burns cannot make; the rest, in the Farewell to Nancy, is verbiage....

...love lyric in England has never so perfectly crystallised a tear — But to see her was to love her ; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted I there occurs what is perhaps the worst couplet he ever wrote, Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge...

...physical morality. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher See Haldane on ANXIETY Heartbreak Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...never parted — We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Robert Bums (1759-1796) Scottish poet When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters...

...drawing the consequences of propositions asserting what might have been but did not in fact happen. "Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved...or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted!" It is a great error to suppose, as many have unthinkingly done, that in the reasoning we call scientific...