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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
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To step aside is human.
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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools If honest nature made you fools.
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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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