Clarinda, how can I forgive myself that I have ever touched a single chord in your bosom with pain!
He was untrue to no one when he took Clarinda into his heart.
Since Burns's marriage the silence between them seems to have been broken by only two letters to Clarinda from Ellisland.
O Clarinda, the tie that binds me to thee is intwisted, incorporated with my dearest threads of life!
Clarinda of Robert Burns, was Mrs. Maclehose, who was alive in 1833.
