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... meet , Your ruin'd , formless bulk o ' stane an ' lime , Compare wi ' bonnie brigs o ' modern time ? There's men o ' taste would tak the Ducat - stream Though they should cast the very sark and swim , Ere they would grate their feelings ...
... meet , Your ruin'd , formless bulk o ' stane an ' lime , Compare wi ' bonnie brigs o ' modern time ? There's men o ' taste would tak the Ducat - stream Though they should cast the very sark and swim , Ere they would grate their feelings ...
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... , curse the time and place When ye begat the base , degenerate race ! Nae langer Reverend Men , their country's glory , In plain braid Scots hold forth a plain braid story ! Nae langer thrifty Citizens , an ' douce , Meet BURNS . 7.
... , curse the time and place When ye begat the base , degenerate race ! Nae langer Reverend Men , their country's glory , In plain braid Scots hold forth a plain braid story ! Nae langer thrifty Citizens , an ' douce , Meet BURNS . 7.
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... Meet owre a pint , or in the Council - house ; But staumrel , corky - headed , graceless Gentry , The herryment and ruin o ' the country ; Men , three - parts made by Tailors and by Barbers , Wha waste your weel - hain'd gear on dd new ...
... Meet owre a pint , or in the Council - house ; But staumrel , corky - headed , graceless Gentry , The herryment and ruin o ' the country ; Men , three - parts made by Tailors and by Barbers , Wha waste your weel - hain'd gear on dd new ...
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... meet their dad , wi ' flichterin noise an ' glee . His wee bit ingle , blinkin bonnily , His clean hearth - stane , his thriftie wifie's smile , The lisping infant prattling on his knee , Does a ' his weary carking cares beguile , An ...
... meet their dad , wi ' flichterin noise an ' glee . His wee bit ingle , blinkin bonnily , His clean hearth - stane , his thriftie wifie's smile , The lisping infant prattling on his knee , Does a ' his weary carking cares beguile , An ...
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... meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays , No more to sigh , or shed the bitter tear , Together hymning their Creator's praise , * Pope's Windsor Forest . In such society , yet still more dear ; While 14 BURNS .
... meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays , No more to sigh , or shed the bitter tear , Together hymning their Creator's praise , * Pope's Windsor Forest . In such society , yet still more dear ; While 14 BURNS .
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Page 132 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 13 - And sage experience bids me this declare — ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Page 74 - But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an
Page 142 - As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I : And I will luve thee still, my Dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun : And I will luve thee still, my Dear, While the sands o
Page 137 - Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o
Page 139 - My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Page 130 - Of a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the West, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 12 - But hark! a rap comes gently to the door; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neibor lad cam o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek; Wi...
Page 131 - John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither; And monie a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither: Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo.
Page 15 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's...