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 AFTONRobert Burns
Flow gently sweet afton among thy green braesFlow gently I'll sing thee a song in thy praiseMy Mary's asleep by thy murmuring streamFlow gently sweet afton, disturb not her dream
Thou stock dove whose echo resound through the glenYe wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny denThou greencrested lapwing thy screaming forbearI charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair
How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hillsFar marked with the courses of clear winding rillsThere daily I wander as noon rises highMy flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye
How pleasant thy banks and sweet valleys belowWhere wild are the woodlands, the primroses blowThere oft, as mild evening weeps over the leaThe sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me
Thy crystal stream, afton, how lovely it glidesAnd winds by the cot where my Mary residesHow wanton the waters her snowy feet laveAs gathering sweet flowers, she stems thy clear wave
Flow gently sweet afton among thy green braesFlow gently sweet river, the theme of my laysMy Mary's asleep by thy murmuring streamFlow gently sweet afton, disturb not her dream. ~
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