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... GAVIN HAMILTON . VERSIFIED NOTE TO DR . MACKENZIE MAUCHLINE LINES TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD THE LASS O ' BALLOCHMYLE . · EPITAPH ON JOHN DOVE , INNKEEPER FAREWELL TO BALLOCHMYLE . THE BANKS OF NITH . • • PART TWO : RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL ...
... GAVIN HAMILTON . VERSIFIED NOTE TO DR . MACKENZIE MAUCHLINE LINES TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD THE LASS O ' BALLOCHMYLE . · EPITAPH ON JOHN DOVE , INNKEEPER FAREWELL TO BALLOCHMYLE . THE BANKS OF NITH . • • PART TWO : RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL ...
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... GAVIN HAMILTON'S GRAVE 88 80 80 MAUCHLINE · HOUSE IN WHICH BURNS AND JEAN ARMOUR LIVED IN THE REAR OF MAUCHLINE KIRK - YARD 80 81 THE WHITEFORD ARMS , MAUCHLINE POOSIE NANSIE'S INN . 81 • 81 THE AFTON AT NEW CUMNOCK . 81 81 SWEET AFTON ...
... GAVIN HAMILTON'S GRAVE 88 80 80 MAUCHLINE · HOUSE IN WHICH BURNS AND JEAN ARMOUR LIVED IN THE REAR OF MAUCHLINE KIRK - YARD 80 81 THE WHITEFORD ARMS , MAUCHLINE POOSIE NANSIE'S INN . 81 • 81 THE AFTON AT NEW CUMNOCK . 81 81 SWEET AFTON ...
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... GAVIN HAMILTON'S HOUSE , MAUCHLINE 161 · FIRST HOME OF BURNS 161 GRAVE OF JEAN ARMOUR AND THREE OF THE CHILDREN OF BURNS 161 MONTGOMERY CASTLE , OR COLLSFIELD HOUSE THE FAILE RIVER IMMEDIATELY BEHIND MONTGOMERY CASTLE 176 . 176 THE ...
... GAVIN HAMILTON'S HOUSE , MAUCHLINE 161 · FIRST HOME OF BURNS 161 GRAVE OF JEAN ARMOUR AND THREE OF THE CHILDREN OF BURNS 161 MONTGOMERY CASTLE , OR COLLSFIELD HOUSE THE FAILE RIVER IMMEDIATELY BEHIND MONTGOMERY CASTLE 176 . 176 THE ...
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... Gavin Hamilton , who was a leader among the laymen in the new religious move- ment against the " auld lichts . " Burns was naturally opposed to Rev. William Auld and Holy Willie , and association with Gavin Hamilton intensified his sym ...
... Gavin Hamilton , who was a leader among the laymen in the new religious move- ment against the " auld lichts . " Burns was naturally opposed to Rev. William Auld and Holy Willie , and association with Gavin Hamilton intensified his sym ...
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... Gavin Hamilton's home . After their marriage he lived next door to Dr. McKenzie , " Common Sense " of The Holy Fair , who was a balancing element in the life of Burns . Here he continued his interest in the Masonic order , and here ...
... Gavin Hamilton's home . After their marriage he lived next door to Dr. McKenzie , " Common Sense " of The Holy Fair , who was a balancing element in the life of Burns . Here he continued his interest in the Masonic order , and here ...
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Afton ALLOWAY Amang auld lang syne Ballochmyle banks bard BARSKIMMING Beneath birks of Aberfeldy blaw blest blythe Bonie lassie bosom braes braw breast BRIG Burns wrote cauld Cessnock charms Clarinda dear Dearie DOON Dumfries e'er Ellisland EPISTLE Ev'n ev'ry fair Farewell farm flowers Fortune's frae Gavin Hamilton glen green grove hame heart Heaven Highland Mary ilka Jean Armour Kirkoswald lass lassie LINCLUDEN LINCLUDEN ABBEY live lo'e Lord Gregory Luve mair Mauchline maun MONTGOMERY CASTLE mony mourn muse Nature's ne'er never night Nith o'er O'Shanter owre Peggy Peggy Thompson pleasure poem poor pow'r pride rigs river River Nith roar rove sang SHANTER sing smile song soul sweet taen Tarbolton thee thine thou thro tree twa sparkling rogueish unco wander weary weel wild Willie winds wretch young JESSIE
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Page 32 - Tam tint his reason a' thegither, And roars out, " Weel done, Cutty-sark !" And in an instant all was dark: And scarcely had he Maggie rallied, When out the hellish legion sallied. As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, 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 274 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony 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 70 - 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 an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 73 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 59 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 71 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme, How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head ; How His first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land : How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope 'springs...
Page 217 - The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Page 68 - 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...
Page 67 - 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
Page 154 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a