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... arm - in - arm in clusters , As great and gracious a ' as sisters ; But hear their absent thoughts o ' ither , They're a ' run deils an ' jads thegither . Whyles , o'er the wee bit cup an ' platie , They sip the scandal potion pretty ...
... arm - in - arm in clusters , As great and gracious a ' as sisters ; But hear their absent thoughts o ' ither , They're a ' run deils an ' jads thegither . Whyles , o'er the wee bit cup an ' platie , They sip the scandal potion pretty ...
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... Now stand as tightly by your tack ; Ne'er claw your lug , an ' fidge your back , An ' hum an haw : But raise your arm , an ' tell your crack Before them a ' . Paint Scotland greeting owre her thrissle ; Her mutchkin stoup 28 THE AUTHOR'S.
... Now stand as tightly by your tack ; Ne'er claw your lug , an ' fidge your back , An ' hum an haw : But raise your arm , an ' tell your crack Before them a ' . Paint Scotland greeting owre her thrissle ; Her mutchkin stoup 28 THE AUTHOR'S.
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... fragrance blooms and beauty charms ! When wretches range , in famish'd swarms , The scented groves , Or hounded forth , dishonour arms In hungry droves . Their gun's a burden on their shouther ; They downa 32 POSTSCRIPT .
... fragrance blooms and beauty charms ! When wretches range , in famish'd swarms , The scented groves , Or hounded forth , dishonour arms In hungry droves . Their gun's a burden on their shouther ; They downa 32 POSTSCRIPT .
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... arm repos'd on the chair back , He sweetly does compose him ! Which , by degrees , slips round her neck , An's loof upon her bosom , Unken'd that day . Now a ' the congregation o'er Is silent expectation ; For ****** speels the holy ...
... arm repos'd on the chair back , He sweetly does compose him ! Which , by degrees , slips round her neck , An's loof upon her bosom , Unken'd that day . Now a ' the congregation o'er Is silent expectation ; For ****** speels the holy ...
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... arms in stern Misfortune's field ; Shall he be guilty of their hireling crimes , The servile , mercenary Swiss of rhymes ? Or labour hard the panegyric close , With all the venal soul of dedicating Prose ? No ! though his artless ...
... arms in stern Misfortune's field ; Shall he be guilty of their hireling crimes , The servile , mercenary Swiss of rhymes ? Or labour hard the panegyric close , With all the venal soul of dedicating Prose ? No ! though his artless ...
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aith amang ance auld baith bard Beneath blast blaw blest bonnie bonnie lasses braw BRIG brunstane Burns cauld charms chiel Cutty-sark dear deil e'en e'er Ellisland Ev'n ev'ry fair fate fear flow'rs frae gien gies grace guid hame haud heart Heav'n himsel honest humble ither John Highlandman joys Kilmarnock labour lasses leuk life's Lord maist maun mind mony mourn muckle muse mutchkin Nae mair Nature's ne'er neebor needna never night noble o'er out-owre owre the sea pleasure plough poet poor pow'r pride rhyme roar Robert Burns round Samson's dead sang sark Scotia's Scotland sing skelpin sugh sweet ta'en tears tell thee thegither There's thou thro TUNE unco weary weel Whare Whistle whyles William Burns wretch Ye'll ye're
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Page 147 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 158 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 146 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor 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 ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 211 - Kirkton Jean till Monday. She prophesied that, late or soon, Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! But to our tale: Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi...
Page 128 - Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin ! Its silly wa's the win's are strewin' ! An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O...
Page 215 - Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. Ah ! little ken'd thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, Wi' twa pund Scots ('twas a
Page 159 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawy bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Page 147 - The soupe their only Hawkie does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood; The dame brings forth in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck fell — An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i
Page 216 - When plundering herds assail their byke ; As open pussie's mortal foes, When, pop! she starts before their nose; As eager runs the market-crowd, When, "Catch the thief!" resounds aloud; So Maggie runs, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow.
Page 145 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an