delia, an ode
“to the editor of the star.—mr. printer—if the produs of a simple ploughman merit a p the same paper with sylvester otway, and the other favourites of the muses who illumihe star with the lustre of genius, your iion of the enclosed trifle will be succeeded by future unications from—yours, &c., r. burns.
ellisnd, near dumfries, 18th may, 1789.”
fair the face of orient day,
fair the tints of op'ning rose;
but fairer still my delia dawns,
more lovely far her beauty shows.
sweet the rk's wild warbled y,
sweet the tinkling rill to hear;
but, delia, more delightfu
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