{"id":6314,"date":"2012-02-21T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:27:34","slug":"ae-fond-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6314","title":{"rendered":"Ae Fond Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Burns<\/p>\n<p>Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;<br \/>\nAe fareweel, alas, for ever!<br \/>\nDeep in heart-wrung tears I&#8217;ll pledge thee,<br \/>\nWarring sighs and groans I&#8217;ll wage thee.<br \/>\nWho shall say that Fortune grieves him,<br \/>\nWhile the star of hope she leaves him?<br \/>\nMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me;<br \/>\nDark despair around benights me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll ne&#8217;er blame my partial fancy,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1180.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Naething could resist my Nancy:<br \/>\nBut to see her was to love her;<br \/>\nLove but her, and love for ever.<br \/>\nHad we never lov&#8217;d sae kindly,<br \/>\nHad we never lov&#8217;d sae blindly,<br \/>\nNever met-or never parted,<br \/>\nWe had ne&#8217;er been broken-hearted.<\/p>\n<p>Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest!<br \/>\nFare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!<br \/>\nThine be ilka joy and treasure,<br \/>\nPeace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!<br \/>\nAe fond kiss, and then we sever!<br \/>\nAe fareweel alas, for ever!<br \/>\nDeep in heart-wrung tears I&#8217;ll pledge thee,<br \/>\nWarring sighs and groans I&#8217;ll wage thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I&#8217;ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I&#8217;ll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[995,996,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}