Thursday, July 28, 2022

Flow Gently Little Stream


 Flow Gently Little Stream

Treasured poem of Robert Burns in high school taught by Mrs Socorro Villamor, my teacher in literature in the late 1950s at Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion (now Divine Word College of Vigan), to whom this book manuscript is dedicated. I find the melody and lyrics of the poem inspiring and soothing in bringing peace and serenity to modern living.  There are poems contained in this manuscript reflective of Burn's poem, which are accessible in this Blog  avrotor.blogspot.com and its extension naturalism - the eighth sense


FLOW GENTLY SWEET AFTON
           Robert Burns

Flow gently sweet afton among thy green braes
Flow gently I'll sing thee a song in thy praise
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
Flow gently sweet afton, disturb not her dream

Thou stock dove whose echo resound through the glen
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den
Thou greencrested lapwing thy screaming forbear
I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair

How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills
Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills
There daily I wander as noon rises high
My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye

How pleasant thy banks and sweet valleys below
Where wild are the woodlands, the primroses blow
There oft, as mild evening weeps over the lea
The sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me

Thy crystal stream, afton, how lovely it glides
And winds by the cot where my Mary resides
How wanton the waters her snowy feet lave
As gathering sweet flowers, she stems thy clear wave

Flow gently sweet afton among thy green braes
Flow gently sweet river, the theme of my lays
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream
Flow gently sweet afton, disturb not her dream. ~

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