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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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To step aside is human.
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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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