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258. Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner

© Robert Burns

Now fare ye weel, an’ joy be wi’ you:
For my sake, this I beg it o’ you,
Assist poor Simson a’ ye can,
Ye’ll fin; him just an honest man;
Sae I conclude, and quat my chanter,
Your’s, saint or sinner,ROB THE RANTER.

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372. Song—Kellyburn Braes

© Robert Burns

THERE lived a carl in Kellyburn Braes,
Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi’ thyme;
And he had a wife was the plague of his days,
And the thyme it is wither’d, and rue is in prime.

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324. Song—The Charms of Lovely Davies

© Robert Burns

O HOW shall I, unskilfu’, try
The poet’s occupation?
The tunefu’ powers, in happy hours,
That whisper inspiration;

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556. Inscription to Jessie Lewars

© Robert Burns

All blameless joys on earth we find,
And all the treasures of the mind—
These be thy guardian and reward;
So prays thy faithful friend, the Bard.DUMFRIES, June 26, 1769.

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149. Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch

© Robert Burns

SHREWD Willie Smellie to Crochallan came;
The old cock’d hat, the grey surtout the same;
His bristling beard just rising in its might,
’Twas four long nights and days to shaving night:

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488. Song—The Winter of Life

© Robert Burns

BUT lately seen in gladsome green,
The woods rejoic’d the day,
Thro’ gentle showers, the laughing flowers
In double pride were gay:

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503. inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet

© Robert Burns

THERE’S Death in the cup, so beware!
Nay, more—there is danger in touching;
But who can avoid the fell snare,
The man and his wine’s so bewitching!

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346. Song—Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation

© Robert Burns

FAREWEEL to a’ our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev’n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam’d in martial story.

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518. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1

© Robert Burns

WHOM will you send to London town,
To Parliament and a’ that?
Or wha in a’ the country round
The best deserves to fa’ that?

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458. Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs

© Robert Burns

HERE lies John Bushby—honest man,
Cheat him, Devil—if you can!

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182. The Libeller’s Self-reproof

© Robert Burns

RASH 1 mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name
Shall no longer appear in the records of Fame;
Dost not know that old Mansfield, who writes like the Bible,
Says, the more ’tis a truth, sir, the more ’tis a libel!

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509. Song—Fragment—There was a Bonie Lass

© Robert Burns

THERE was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass,
And she lo’ed her bonie laddie dear;
Till War’s loud alarms tore her laddie frae her arms,
Wi’ mony a sigh and tear.

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211. Song—My Hoggie

© Robert Burns

WHAT will I do gin my Hoggie die?
My joy, my pride, my Hoggie!
My only beast, I had nae mae,
And vow but I was vogie!

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433. Song—Down the Burn, Davie love

© Robert Burns

AS down the burn they took their way,
And thro’ the flowery dale;
His cheek to hers he aft did lay,
And love was aye the tale:

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383. Song—My Wife’s a winsome wee thing

© Robert Burns

Chorus.—She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo’esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

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278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations

© Robert Burns

Now, by the Pow’rs o’ verse and prose!
Thou art a dainty chield, O Grose!—
Whae’er o’ thee shall ill suppose,
They sair misca’ thee;
I’d take the rascal by the nose,
Wad say, “Shame fa’ thee!”

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243. Elegy on the Year 1788

© Robert Burns

FOR lords or kings I dinna mourn,
E’en let them die-for that they’re born:
But oh! prodigious to reflec’!
A Towmont, sirs, is gane to wreck!

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111. Address to Beelzebub

© Robert Burns

LONG life, my Lord, an’ health be yours,
Unskaithed by hunger’d Highland boors;
Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar,
Wi’ dirk, claymore, and rusty trigger,

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432. Song—Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version)

© Robert Burns

BEHOLD the hour, the boat arrive;
Thou goest, the darling of my heart;
Sever’d from thee, can I survive,
But Fate has will’d and we must part.

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420. Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.

© Robert Burns

BLEST be M’Murdo to his latest day!
No envious cloud o’ercast his evening ray;
No wrinkle, furrow’d by the hand of care,
Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair!
O may no son the father’s honour stain,
Nor ever daughter give the mother pain!