Fragment, Why, Why Tell The Lover Robert Burns Song

Poetry of the Ploughman Robert Burns Song Fragment, Why, Why Tell The Lover

Tune— Caledonian Hunt’s delight.

Why, why tell thy lover
Bliss he never must enjoy ?
Why, why undeceive him,
And give all his hopes the lie?
O why, while fancy, raptur’d slumbers,
Chloris, Chloris all the theme,
Why, why would’st thou, cruel—
Wake thy lover from his dream?